snapperS 0.3.0

A set of supplementary commands to be used with snapper

A set of subcommands to supplement snapper usage. Tested only on Ubuntu 15.10 (bug reports welcome!).

usage: snapperS [-h] [-d DIRECTORY] [-v] {cat,backup,delete} ...

snapperS: A variety of supplemental snapper subcommands

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
                        Directory containing the snapshots
  -v, --verbose         Enable verbose logging. If you are experiencing difficulties with this program, try with -v for debugging.

subcommands:
  cat to run cat on a file from a specific snapshot.
  delete to delete files from either all snapshots or a range of snapshots.
  backup to backup a snapshot to a file via the btrfs send command.

  {cat,backup,delete}

Subcommands

snapperS cat

usage: snapperS cat [-h] -f FILENAME -s SNAPSHOT

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f FILENAME, --filename FILENAME
                        The file to cat
  -s SNAPSHOT, --snapshot SNAPSHOT
                        The snapshot to view

snapperS delete

usage: snapperS delete [-h] -f FILENAME [-r RANGE] [--recursive]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f FILENAME, --filename FILENAME
                        Delete a file from all past snapshots.
  -r RANGE, --range RANGE
                        The range of snapshots to delete the file from in the
                        form of startPoint..endPoint (e.g. 2..5)
  --recursive           Delete recursively (i.e. a folder)

snapperS backup

usage: snapperS backup [-h] [-b BACKUP] [-s SNAPSHOT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -b BACKUP, --backup BACKUP
                        The location to store the backup
  -s SNAPSHOT, --snapshot SNAPSHOT
                        The number of the snapshot you want to backup

Installation

pip install snapperS

or

git clone https://github.com/ddworken/snapperS.git
cd snapperS
python setup.py install