Let’s say i made 10 snapshots on top of the base.

Now can i delete snap no. 5? Will the snaps after 5 will be affected?

Solved

Yes, one can delete consecutive snapshots. The data won’t be deleted unless all snaps ( reference points ) get deleted.

Note: If you delete the original file and delete all the snapshots made when the file is still there, the file will get deleted permanently.

  • gpstarmanOP
    2·
    5 days ago

    If your snapshots are taken from your main subvolume, then they shouldn’t be incremental backups

    So other snaps from other subvols are incremental backups?

    • doughless@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 days ago

      Two snapshots taken from the same subvolume would not be incremental. For them to be incremental, a snapshot would need to be copied from another snapshot. From that article I linked, it looks like you have you use the send command to actually make an incremental snapshot.