automate sending snapper snapshots to another machine

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Hi. After RedHat 8 removed BTRFS support from stock kernels in favor of zfs I’m trying to migrate from CentOS 7 to Opensuse. On CentOS I was using an extra Linux machine to store backups and btrfs-sxbackup to handle both local and remote snapshots.
With btrfs-sxbackup you can configure source retention policy, much like snapper’s TIMELINE_LIMIT_*
but also a destination location, possibly over SSH and destination retention policy.

I’m new to Opensuse and so far I couldn’t find what software does a similar thing here. I don’t want to run btrfs-sxbackup in parallel to snapper and I don’t want to lose the automation snapper provides.

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I am not aware of integration of snapper with btrfs snapshots replication. Nothing stops you from continuing to use snapper for root (to enable rollback/boot into previous snapshot) and something else for user data.