BTRFS-BACKUP-NG-STATUS(1)

📦 version 0.9.20, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 BTRFS-BACKUP-NG-STATUS(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the User Commands girlie from the btrfs-backup-ng fam, and she is literally the group chat's resident gossip — she tells you everything that's been going on with your backup jobs. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

btrfs-backup-ng-status — show job status and statistics 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

btrfs-backup-ng status [OPTIONS]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Not me pulling up the receipts on your backups 🔍. This one displays the last run times, your snapshot counts, your transfer statistics, and the overall health status for all your configured backup jobs. It's giving "how are we doing, be honest" energy. 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -t, --transactions — spill the tea: show the recent transaction history straight out of the transaction log. 📜
  • -n, --limit N — how many transactions do we wanna see? Default: 10. Lowkey more is fine, no cap. 🔢

👑 OUTPUT 👑

Here's what the status command serves you, periodt:

  • Last successful run time ⏰
  • Snapshot counts per volume 📸
  • Backup counts per target 🎯
  • Any errors or warnings (hopefully none, but we stay vigilant 😭)

And when you add --transactions, she also shows:

  • Recent backup/transfer operations 🔄
  • Success/failure status ✅/❌
  • Transfer sizes and durations 📏

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Wanna see where we're at right now?

btrfs-backup-ng status

Wanna see the last 20 transactions? Iconic, obsessed:

btrfs-backup-ng status --transactions --limit 20

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • ~/.local/share/btrfs-backup-ng/transactions.jsonl — the user transaction log, iykyk 💜
  • /var/lib/btrfs-backup-ng/transactions.jsonl — the system transaction log 🧚

💫 SEE ALSO 💫

btrfs-backup-ng(1), btrfs-backup-ng-list(1) — go read those next, bestie, they ate fr fr 🔥

and that's the whole vibe 💅 this page is from btrfs-backup-ng, dated January 2026 — slay, mwah, bye bestie! 🎀✨

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