Re: [Users] Basic questions about ploop snapshotting

2014-11-18 Thread Simon Barrett
> I'm not quite following all of your statements. Specifically, I don't > see why you think you need a base AND a first snapshot. One snapshot is > sufficient for later restoring. Also, I don't think you need to > understand the underlying architecture in order to successfully use > snapshots (it m

[Users] Ploop Incremental backups strategy

2015-04-01 Thread Simon Barrett
Hi all, Is there any reason why I should not create snapshot a ploop-backed container each day (or hour, for that matter) then merge all outstanding snapshots at the end of the week (vzctl snapshot-delete) and compact it? This would allow me to do efficient incremental backups to back up (using ba

Re: [Users] simfs challenge

2016-01-29 Thread Simon Barrett
> > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:42:55 +0500 > From: Nick Knutov > To: OpenVZ users > Subject: Re: [Users] simfs challenge > Message-ID: <56a9febf.5010...@knutov.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Hello, > > One of big reasons to prefer simfs over ploop