bsnapshot

btrfs based backup tool with daily/weekly/monthly/yearly schedules

Features

• Simple bash script to create btrfs snapshots
• Snapshot groups for daily/weekly/monthly/yearly tasks
• Set custom retention policies for each backup group
• Time based locking to avoid unwanted snapshots (execute script multiple times in a row)

Usage

bsnapshot has one magic command called backup - it executed the daily/weekly/monthly/yearly schedules and finally applies the backup retention policies to remove outdated snapshot.

Usage: bsnapshot [options...] <command>
btrfs based backup tool with daily/weekly/monthly/yearly schedules

Options:
    -h,--help               Displays this help
    -v,--version            Displays version
    -c <filename>           Use specific configuration file

Commands:
    backup                  create snapshot(s) and apply retention policy
    list                    List all available snapshots

Example

 # ./bsnapshot backup
 > daily snapshots enabled
no previous snapshot found
Create a readonly snapshot of '/mnt/backup' in '/mnt/data/.snapshots/daily/daily-20201020T190904'
snapshot created

 > weekly snapshots enabled
no previous snapshot found
Create a readonly snapshot of '/mnt/backup' in '/mnt/data/.snapshots/weekly/weekly-20201020T190904'
snapshot created

 > monthly snapshots enabled
no previous snapshot found
Create a readonly snapshot of '/mnt/backup' in '/mnt/data/.snapshots/monthly/monthly-20201020T190905'
snapshot created

 > yearly snapshots enabled
no previous snapshot found
Create a readonly snapshot of '/mnt/backup' in '/mnt/data/.snapshots/yearly/yearly-20201020T190905'
snapshot created

List backups

To get an overview of all snapshots, just run the list command:

Example

 # ./bsnapshot list
/mnt/data/.snapshots
├── daily
│   └── daily-20201020T190904
├── monthly
│   └── monthly-20201020T190905
├── weekly
│   └── weekly-20201020T190904
└── yearly
    └── yearly-20201020T190905

CLI Options

Package Installation

Via Aenon-Dynamics Repository

See AenonDynamics/CPR

apt-get install bsnapshot

Manual setup

• Copy bsnapshot to /usr/sbin/bsnapshot
• Create the configuration file /etc/bsnapshot.conf

Configuraton

Volumes

You have to set a source directory (a btrfs subvolume + valid mountpoint) from which the snapshot should be created as well as a directory within the same btrfs filesystem which contains the snapshots. That's it!

File: /etc/bsnapshot.conf

...
# btrfs source volume
SOURCE_DIR="/mnt/data"

# snapshot storage directory within btrfs source volume
SNAPSHOT_DIR="/mnt/data/.snapshots"

Data retention schedule

The build-in data retention policy is executed after each backup. You can define how log a snapshot (subvolume) should exist before it's automatically removed by bsnapshot.

By setting a policy to zero (or left empty) the backup group will be disabled - no snapshot is created for the schedule nor the retention policy is applied

Configuration

File: /etc/bsnapshot.conf

...
# keep 14 daily snapshots
RETENTION_POLICY_DAYS=14

# keep 12 weekly snapshots
RETENTION_POLICY_WEEKS=12

# keep 18 monthly snapshots
RETENTION_POLICY_MONTHS=18

# keep 2 yearly snapshots
RETENTION_POLICY_YEARS=2

systemd-timer or cron invocation

bsnapshot is designed to be executed ones a day. It's up to you to setup a systemd-timer or cron.

Contribution

The .deb package is automatically generated via a Continuous Delivery Pipeline - please do not build packages manually!

License

bsnapshot is OpenSource and licensed under the Terms of Mozilla Public License 2.0. You're welcome to contribute