Btrfs: Send/receive

Posted Sep 15, 2014 18:54 UTC (Mon) by HillClimber (guest, #98299)
Parent article: Btrfs: Send/receive and ioctl()

> Over time, one assumes, reasonably user-friendly tools will be developed to automate these tasks

I've written a utility as a user-friendly way to use btrfs send and receive for backups or other synchronization, and I'd love to get feedback on it.

As of this release, buttersink will synchronize a set of read-only snapshots in a btrfs filesystem to an Amazon S3 bucket, and vice-versa. It
intelligently picks parent snapshots to "diff" from, so that a minimal amount of data needs to be sent over the wire and stored in the backend.

It's both on GitHub (https://github.com/AmesCornish/buttersink) and PyPi (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/buttersink/).

Thanks in advance for any feedback!