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How to backup a btrfs filesystem using Amazon S3 and s3backer

A while ago, a friend of mine introduced me to s3backer, a tool that makes you able to use a s3 bucket as a support for any filesystem you want. I was looking for a way to backup my btrfs filesystem using btrfs send/receive commands, this looked like a good opportunity to do so. In addition I’ll use cryptsetup to encrypt the data on this filesystem. In order to achieve this you need a few things ready :