btrfs-sxbackup-update(1)

📦 version 0.6.11, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 btrfs-sxbackup-update(1) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the btrfs-sxbackup-update manual page and it's literally the glow-up your backup job has been waiting for. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

btrfs-sxbackup-update — update a backup job. that's it, that's the vibe. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

btrfs-sxbackup update [-h] [-sr <source_retention>] [-dr
<destination_retention>] [-c] <subvolume> [<subvolume> ...]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Update a btrfs-sxbackup job. fr fr, that's the whole thing — you're refreshing the settings on a job that already exists, giving it a lil makeover. 🎀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • <subvolume> — the backup job's source or destination subvolume. can be a local path or an SSH url. you know the drill, bestie. 🫶
  • -h, --help — shows the help message and then exits. your emergency "wait what does this do again" button. no shame in it. 🙈
  • -sr <source_retention>, --source-retention <source_retention> — the expression that defines which source snapshots get retained and which get cleaned up. it can be a plain static number (like, that many backups) or a fancier expression, for example "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". it's giving ✨selective hoarding✨ and honestly? iconic.
  • -dr <destination_retention>, --destination-retention <destination_retention> — same energy, but for the destination snapshots: which ones to retain and which to clean up. can be a static number (of backups) or a more complex expression — see the --source-retention argument above, it's the blueprint. 💖
  • -c, --compress — turns on compression during transmission. heads up though: this requires lzop to be installed on both the source and the destination. no lzop, no compress, that's the rule. 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie. go forth and update those jobs. 🧚

this little masterpiece comes to you from Marco Schindler, running version 0.5.9, dated with the manual name btrfs-sxbackup-update(1) — mwah, take care, slay, periodt. 💅✨

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