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James Barnett committed Oct 1, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -14,10 +14,14 @@ snapshots will go. Additionally you are show the location of the backed up
snapshot. If you have performed a backup to this device before, only the changes
since the last backup have to be sent.

## Requirements

snapper is required.

## Example output

$ ./backup

Selected a mounted BTRFS device to backup to.
1) 43cedfb6-8775-43be-8abc-ee63bb92e10e (/)
2) 43cedfb6-8775-43be-8abc-ee63bb92e10e (/.snapshots)
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Continue (y/n)? y
At subvol //.snapshots/2288/snapshot
Done!

The related snapshots from this on the local machine are for `home`:

single | 1097 | | Sat 01 Oct 2016 07:48:40 AM CDT | root | | latest incremental backup | backupdir=acer-c720, uuid=7360922b-c916-4d9f-a670-67fe0b91143c

and for `root`:

single | 2288 | | Sat 01 Oct 2016 07:50:56 AM CDT | root | | latest incremental backup | backupdir=acer-c720, uuid=7360922b-c916-4d9f-a670-67fe0b91143c

As you can see the userdata column for snapper is used to keep track of these
snapshots for the next time the script is run so that only the changes will need
to be sent.

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