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[SOLVED] Can I delete BTRFS snapshots from middle? (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Let's say i made 10 snapshots on top of the base.

Now can i delete snap no. 5? Will the snaps after 5 will be affected?

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Yes, one can delete consecutive snapshots. The data won't be deleted unless all snaps ( reference points ) get deleted.

Note: If you delete the original file and delete all the snapshots made when the file is still there, the file will get deleted permanently.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If your snapshots are taken from your main subvolume, then they shouldn't be incremental backups

So other snaps from other subvols are incremental backups?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Two snapshots taken from the same subvolume would not be incremental. For them to be incremental, a snapshot would need to be copied from another snapshot. From that article I linked, it looks like you have you use the send command to actually make an incremental snapshot.