grub-btrfsd(8)

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grub-btrfsd(8)

NAME

grub-btrfsd - An OpenRC daemon to automatically update the grub menu with grub-btrfs(8)

when a new btrfs snapshot is created.

SYNOPSIS

grub-btrfsd [-h, --help] [-c, --no-color] [-l, --log-file LOG_FILE] [-r, --recursive] [-s, --syslog] [-t, --timeshift-auto] [-o, --timeshift-old] [-v, --verbose] SNAPSHOTS_DIRS

DESCRIPTION

Grub-btrfsd is a shell script which is meant to be run as a daemon. Grub-btrfsd watches a directory where btrfs-snapshots are created or deleted via inotifywait and runs grub-mkconfig (if grub-mkconfig never ran before since grub-btrfs was installed) or /etc/grub.d/41_snapshots-btrfs (when grub-mkconfig ran before with grub-btrfs installed) when something in that directory changes.

OPTIONS

SNAPSHOTS_DIRS

This argument specifies the (space separated) paths where grub-btrfsd looks for newly created snapshots and snapshot deletions. It is usually defined by the program used to make snapshots. E.g. for Snapper this would be /.snapshots. It is possible to define more than one directory here, all directories will inherit the same settings (recursive etc.). This argument is not necessary to provide if --timeshift-auto is set.

-c / --no-color

Disable colors in output.

-l / --log-file

This arguments specifies a file where grub-btrfsd should write log messages.

-r / --recursive

Watch snapshot directory recursively

-s / --syslog

Write to syslog

-t / --timeshift-auto

This is a flag to activate the auto detection of the path where Timeshift stores snapshots. Newer versions (>=22.06) of Timeshift mount their snapshots to /run/timeshift/$PID/backup/timeshift-btrfs. Where $PID is the process ID of the currently running Timeshift session. The PID is changing every time Timeshift is opened. grub-btrfsd can automatically take care of the detection of the correct PID and directory if this flag is set. In this case the argument SNAPSHOTS_DIRS has no effect.

-o / --timeshift-old

Look for snapshots in /run/timeshift/backup/timeshift-btrfs instead of /run/timeshift/$PID/backup/timeshift-btrfs. This is to be used for Timeshift versions <22.06.

-v / --verbose

Let the log of the daemon be more verbose

-h / --help

Displays a short help message.

CONFIGURATION

The daemon is usually configured via the file /etc/conf.d/grub-btrfsd on openrc-init systems and sudo systemctl edit --full grub-btrfsd on systemd systems. In this file the arguments (See OPTIONS), that OpenRC passes to the daemon when it is started, can be configured.

NOTES

A common configuration for Snapper would be to set SNAPSHOTS_DIR to /.snapshots and not to set --timeshift-auto. For Timeshift --timeshift-auto is set to true and SNAPSHOTS_DIR can be left as is.

FILES

/etc/conf.d/grub-btrfsd /usr/lib/systemd/system/grub-btrfsd.service