Dear Russell, On 08/01/2019 20:34, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wednesday, 9 January 2019 7:25:35 AM AEDT Andrew Luke Nesbit via luv-main >> Do you mind if I ask you what your backup regime is? I often ask >> people when the topic comes up because it's such an important thing. >> I'm always interested in potentially improving my knowledge and >> practice. > > Firstly I use BTRFS or ZFS for everything that matters. The first stage of > backup is filesystem snapshots, that covers the most common restore case of > "oops I deleted the wrong file".
Thank you for explaining this to me/us. I have been thinking about what you wrote in the hope that the penny would drop, but no such luck so far... Are you saying that the snapshot _itself_ is literally the first-stage backup? > Next I rsync files to a disk with a BTRFS filesystem and use BTRFS snapshots > on that for multiple backups (going back months or years as most files don't > change much). Are the files you rsync to the disk with Btrfs are the snapstop files you mentioned earlier? Or regular files in the "working portion" of the main disk/array/NAS? > Some of those disks with backups are stored offsite. How do you make this decision, and how is this implemented? Kind regards, Andrew -- OpenPGP key: EB28 0338 28B7 19DA DAB0 B193 D21D 996E 883B E5B9 _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
