Hi selfhosting community! At the moment I have my services set up with nix. They store their data on a btrfs subvolume which I can easily snapshot.

For backup I configured btrbk to send the snapshots to a target pc. However I feel uneasy not knowing if the backups succeeded or not. Right now I would need to check manually on the target machine every so often.

How are you guys handling this problem? Custom scripts for btrfs send/receive? Is there a function in btrbk I overlooked where I can verify the state and get notified of problems?

I was looking into ntfy-sh, which looks optimal, but how can I know if the send/receive was successful?

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Hmm, good question. I don’t have a setup for that either, but I don’t think there is a built in function for that.

    Your best bet is probably to find some tool that notifies you if new files get created in a directory, as AFAIK new snapshots are only created if they were successfully transferred.