Re: Any interest? ButterManager and grub-btrfs

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

Hullo!

On Wed, 2020-12-30 at 21:12 +0000, Justin W. Flory wrote:
>  Hi all!
>  
>  ngompa and I were talking to the upstream maintainer of the
>  ButterManager backup tool about packaging for Fedora. Upstream is
>  ready
>  to collaborate on a RPM spec file if there is an interest in
>  packaging
>  for Fedora:
>  
>      https://twitter.com/eloygara/status/1344006727583330305
>  
>      https://github.com/egara/buttermanager
>  
>      https://github.com/Antynea/grub-btrfs
>  
>  The maintainer is willing to work with someone on a package and
>  possibly
>  host it upstream:
>  
>      https://twitter.com/eloygara/status/1344309377101164546
>  
>  There is interesting functionality for Btrfs snapshots here. The idea
>  of
>  being able to jump into any given system snapshot from the GRUB boot
>  menu is appealing to me. :-)
>  
>  Neither Neal or I have time to pick these up as new packages, but I
>  wanted to share the package on devel@ in case anyone were interested
>  in
>  bringing this to Fedora users now that Btrfs is the default
>  filesystem.
>   
Happy to help here, Neal and I had a previous conversation on the topic
and leveraging an existing tool sounds like a great idea.

Best regards,

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