On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 6:29:09 PM CET Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-02-06, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > If you want to use snapshots, the filesystem will need to support it. > > (either LVM or ZFS). If you only want to create snapshots on the > > backupserver, I actually don't see much benefit over using rsync. > > Upthread I've been told that ZFS snapshots > > 1. Require far less disk space than rsync's snapshots. > 2. Are far faster. > 3. Are atomic.
True, but the speed is reduced by relying on rsync to copy data from your PC to the backupserver. > > They are normally not visible though, you need to access them specifically > > using "/filesystem/path/.zfs/snapshot" > > Great, that's exactly what I would hope for. I'm reading up on ZFS, > and from what I've gleaned so far, it seems lake ZFS source and ZFS > backup certainly would be ideal. > > It's almost like the ZFS filesystem designers had thought about "how > to backup" from the start. Something that all of the old-school > filesystem designers clearly hadn't. :) I think it's also mainly there to quickly keep a backup server on standby for a quick switch over. -- Joost
