Ability to set backup name about btrbk HOT 7 CLOSED

The date suffix is used internally for the backup retention calculation, and cannot be removed without breaking this feature.
Configurable snapshot/backup names could be implemented, but I don't think this could cause more confusion than being useful (e.g. what happens if you rename two backups to the same name?).

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2 good points i was not considering. Still think it could be nice to have the option to name a backup and maybe exclude it from regular retention periods incase you want to keep this specific backup for longer...Could be a seldomly used feature...

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Implemented subvolume_name configuration option.
Fixed in: 01a25ad

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Fix included in btrbk-0.17.0

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so is this set once in the config file or on the command line?

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It's in the config file, simply specify snapshot_name <basename> in your subvolume section. (also check the man-page: btrbk.conf(5) for details)

See btrbk.conf.example:

volume ssh://my-remote-host.com/mnt/btr_pool
  subvolume data_0
    snapshot_dir  snapshots/btrbk
    snapshot_name data_main
    target send-receive    /mnt/btr_backup/_btrbk/my-remote-host.com

In this example, the snapshot will be named /mnt/btr_pool/snapshots/btrbk/data_main.20150501. The backups always get the same basename as the snapshot, and will be /mnt/btr_backup/_btrbk/my-remote-host.com/data_main.20150501 in the example.

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Great thank you. I was looking in the commits for the update to the man page but for some reason i did not think to look at the actual man page lol. Thank you again for all your work on this

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