This happened to me after I manually changed @ to @bad and renamed the last working @apt snapshot backup to @ as sudo apt-btrfs-snapshot list Available snapshots: listed 0 snapshots !!! while sudo btrfs sub list / ID 257 gen 15248 top level 5 path @bad ID 265 gen 2060 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_20:36:25 ID 268 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_21:12:34 ID 270 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_21:45:56 ID 272 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_22:01:38 ID 273 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_22:23:44 ID 275 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_22:36:06 ID 276 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_22:49:29 ID 277 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_22:56:47 ID 279 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_23:06:23 ID 280 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_23:34:56 ID 281 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_23:40:52 ID 282 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_23:41:16 ID 283 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-29_23:44:19 ID 285 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_05:14:56 ID 286 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_05:18:54 ID 288 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_05:34:49 ID 289 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_05:38:10 ID 290 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_05:39:34 ID 291 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_05:40:18 ID 292 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_05:49:49 ID 293 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_05:52:48 ID 294 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_05:53:03 ID 295 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_05:55:10 ID 297 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_05:57:49 ID 298 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_06:13:19 ID 299 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_06:20:02 ID 300 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_06:26:21 ID 301 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_06:34:00 ID 302 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_06:47:18 ID 303 gen 15217 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_06:52:49 ID 304 gen 15295 top level 5 path @ ID 306 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_07:15:54 ID 307 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_07:16:20 ID 308 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_07:20:41 ID 309 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_07:33:28 ID 310 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_07:33:52 ID 312 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_07:34:18 ID 313 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_07:35:29 ID 314 gen 15248 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_07:38:02 ID 315 gen 15247 top level 5 path @apt-snapshot-2018-12-30_07:41:40 sudo btrfs sub show / @ Name: @ UUID: 3b347b10-bc32-f848-89c5-8c6c6585c4f2 Parent UUID: e7bfca0b-0e56-454c-a96a-7310eb784685 Received UUID: - Creation time: 2018-12-30 07:13:22 +1000 Subvolume ID: 304 Generation: 15296 Gen at creation: 14513 Parent ID: 5 Top level ID: 5 Flags: - Snapshot(s):