How do you handle snapshotting? or do you leave that to the block/fs virtualization layer?
/kc On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 01:35:27PM +1200, Henri Shustak said: >> Our backup procudures have provision for looking back at previous directories, but there is not much to be gained with recycled directories. Without recycling, and after a failure, the latest available backup may not have much in it. > >Just wanted to point out that LBackup has a number of checks in place to detect failures during a backup. If this happens, then that backup is not labeled as a successful snapshot. > >At present, when the next snap shot is started, the previous incomplete snapshot(s) are not used as a link-dest source. As mentioned, this is something I have been looking at for a while. However, there are some edge cases which need to be handled carefully if you use incomplete backups as a link-dest source. I am sure these problems are all contractable, I have simply not spend enough time. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >This email is protected by LBackup, an open source backup solution. >http://www.lbackup.org > > > > >-- >Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. >To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync >Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Ken Chase - k...@heavycomputing.ca skype:kenchase23 +1 416 897 6284 Toronto Canada Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 Front St. W. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
