Intro

The use of btrfs as the primary filesystem offers interesting options for system-wide backups. Atomic snapshots are used to quickly capture the state of a subvolume at any point in time. Incremental backups can be synchronized to locally attached disks or over the network to remote sites.

However, a backup is only useful if it is easy to restore a new machine quickly. This guide provides step-by-step instructions for selected Linux distributions.