Re: OK to take hourly snapshots, then cull older ones?

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On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 12:50:24PM +0100, Matthias G. Eckermann wrote:
> Hello David and all,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 21:05 David Madden wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to use BTRFS to do something like the old NetApp
> > snapshot system: every hour or so, there'd be a snapshot,
> > then the 23 of the snapshots during a day would be
> > deleted, leaving just a day snapshot, then after a month,
> > 6 of 7 snapshots would be deleted, leaving just a week
> > snapshot, and so on.
> 
> This is implemented in "Snapper", see:
> 	http://snapper.io/
> It's by default delivered with openSUSE and SUSE Linux
> Enterprise, binaries are available for "everything else"
> as well.

Just curious, what does it do more than the 20 line shellscript I
posted?
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/scripts/btrfs_snaps

Marc
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