Having trouble setting up app-backup/snapper with openrc

[thirtySeven]

I would like to use Snapper for snapshotting my btrfs filesystem. The problem is that every tutorial out there assumes systemd. To start the snapper timers on systemd you use the services:

[minorsecond]

This is mega late, but I've figured it out.

If you have a cron daemon installed (I have Cronie), and then install snapper, it seems to automatically set it up for you. In /etc/cron.hourly, I have a file called "suse.de-snapper" which is a script to take a snapshot hourly for each snapper config. In /etc/cron.daily, I have a file with the same name that performs the snapshot cleanups.

I want both to occur hourly, so I renamed them to specific names (added cleanup and snapshot timer to the filenames) and have them both in the cron.hourly directory.