On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 12:57:58 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 27.05.2014 09:59, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > So far, btrfs looks good on my laptop - time to think about putting > > it on my desktop. > > Yeah, good luck with that. I am quite happy with btrfs so far ... no > problems or disadvantages so far. > > And the hourly snapshots of / and /home on my desktop are really nice > to have ;-)
Hourly snapshots are nice, but I wonder how much need there is if the filesystem itself doesn't change very much. I am still happily using LVM with snapshots. Those are instantaneous as well and I can then backup the snapshot, which on my server takes between 2 hours (incremental) and 3 weeks (full) When a snapshot is backed up, it is removed. The process to create the snapshots runs daily, but I could also configure it to run more often. This means that when I start a daily backup, the incrementals are piling up as snapshots. With 15 different filesystems to backup, I didn't experience any issue with this. I wonder how btrfs would deal with a situation like this? -- Joost
