Hi, > Could snapper be changed to restrict the amount of snapshots kept in > each category based on amount of free space on the file system, to avoid > filling up the disk with snapshots?
Unfortunately, no. However, you can limit snapshots by "numbers". One btrfs guy says it's hard to do such behavior since btrfs snapshots share same blocks as those snapshot data, so not sure how to keep amount of disk by deleting old snapshots. > It would be great if snapper also provided a way to easily figure out > how much disk space a given snapshot uses. Said above, most of snapshots share same blocks, it's hard I guess. > Btw, are you aware of <URL: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zfsnap >, > which uses an interesting way to name snapshots (with timestamp and > duration), which make it quite easy to administrate the snapshots from > the command line. Perhaps something similar could be done by snapper? Could you give me some examples, please? -- Hideki Yamane
