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Manage filesystem snapshots and allow undo of system modifications
https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper
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Manage filesystem snapshots and allow undo of system modifications
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper
- Owner: openSUSE
- License: gpl-2.0
- Created: 2012-04-20T12:40:55.000Z (over 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-21T07:22:25.000Z (about 2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-23T07:17:43.645Z (about 2 months ago)
- Language: C++
- Homepage: http://snapper.io/
- Size: 7.8 MB
- Stars: 905
- Watchers: 48
- Forks: 128
- Open Issues: 115
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: COPYING
- Authors: AUTHORS
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README
Snapper
=======
Snapper is a tool for Linux file system snapshot management. Apart from the
obvious creation and deletion of snapshots it can compare snapshots and
revert differences between them. In simple terms, this allows root and
non-root users to view older versions of files and revert changes.
For more information visit [snapper.io](http://snapper.io/).
Development
-----------
For compiling and developing Snapper you need to setup the development
environment first.
### Development Environment
In the SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE distributions you can install the needed
packages by using these commands:
```sh
# install the basic development environment (SUSE Linux Enterprise, the SDK extension is needed)
sudo zypper install -t pattern SDK-C-C++
# install the basic development environment (openSUSE)
sudo zypper install -t pattern devel_C_C++
# install the extra packages for snapper development (both SLE and openSUSE)
sudo zypper install git libmount-devel dbus-1-devel libacl-devel \
docbook-xsl-stylesheets libxml2-devel libbtrfs-devel
```
### Building Snapper
You can download the sources and build Snapper by using these commands:
```sh
git clone [email protected]:/snapper.git
cd snapper
make -f Makefile.repo
# parallelize the build using more processors, use plain `make` if it does not work
make -j`nproc`
```
### Installing and Running Snapper
To run the freshly built Snapper use this:
```sh
sudo make install
# kill the currently running DBus process if present
sudo killall snapperd
# try your changes (the DBus service is started automatically)
(sudo) snapper ...
```
### Running Tests
Snapper includes some internal unit tests to avoid some bugs and regressions.
The tests are located in the `testsuite` subdirectory and you can start them
using the `make check` command.
There are also some additional tests in the `testsuite-real` subdirectory,
but be careful. *These tests really execute snapper commands and they can
destroy your data! Run these tests only in a testing environment!*
### Releasing
- Before releasing the Snapper package ensure that the changes made to the
package are mentioned in the `package/snapper.changes` file, update also the
`dists/debian/changelog` file.
- Make sure the units tests still passes ([see above](#running-tests)).
- When the version is increased then the Git repo has to be tagged, use the
`vX.Y.Z` format for the tag. Also the [filesystems:snapper][]
OBS project has to be updated.
- To create the package use command `make package`. Then use the common
work-flow to submit the
package to the build service. For [openSUSE:Factory][]
send at first the package to the devel project [filesystems:snapper][] in OBS.
*Please note that this OBS project builds for more distributions
so more metadata files have to be updated. See the OBS documentation
for more info ([cross distribution howto][xdist], [Debian builds][]).*
[filesystems:snapper]: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/filesystems:snapper
[openSUSE:Factory]: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory
[xdist]: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_cross_distribution_howto
[Debian builds]: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Debian_builds
- The generated xz tarball has to be also placed at
.
- When the documentation changes e.g. the man page or an important
functionality then also the [snapper.io](http://snapper.io/) web pages
have to be updated. They are hosted as GitHub pages
in the [gh-pages branch](https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper/tree/gh-pages)
in the Snapper Git repository.