btrfs-sxbackup-init(1)

💖 btrfs-sxbackup-init(1) — the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, so this is btrfs-sxbackup-init, part of the btrfs-sxbackup manual set. yes the manpage name is literally that long, we love a descriptive queen 💅

✨ NAME ✨

btrfs-sxbackup-init — Initialize a backup job 🌱

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

btrfs-sxbackup init [-h] [-sr <source_retention>] [-dr
<destination_retention>] [-c] <source_subvolume> <destination_subvolume>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Initialize a btrfs-sxbackup job.

that's it. that's the whole description. it's giving "short and confident" ✨ you're literally setting up the job so it can do its thing later. main character energy fr fr.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• <source_subvolume> — the source subvolume you wanna back up. it can be a local path, or an ssh url 🌈
• <destination_subvolume> — the destination subvolume, aka the one receiving all those backup snapshots. also a local path or an ssh url 🫶
• -h, --help — shows the help message and exits. iconic behaviour honestly 👑
• -sr <source_retention>, --source-retention <source_retention> — the expression that decides which source snapshots get retained and which get cleaned up. it can be a static number (of backups) or a fancier expression, like "1d:4/d, 1w:daily, 2m:none" which literally translates to: "1 day from now keep 4 backups a day, 1 week from now keep daily backups, 2 months from now keep none" 💀 no cap, that's the actual example.
• -dr <destination_retention>, --destination-retention <destination_retention> — the expression that decides which destination snapshots get retained and which get cleaned up. same deal: a static number (of backups), or a more complex expression (see the --source-retention argument above, bestie 🍓).
• -c, --compress — turns on compression during transmission. ⚠️ heads up: this requires lzop to be installed on both the source AND the destination, so like… actually install it, okay? don't come crying to me 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• btrfs-sxbackup(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie. this lil beauty is brought to you by Marco Schindler, version 0.5.9 🎀 go forth and init some backup jobs, you absolute legend 💖✨🦋