On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:47:53 +0100, Michael wrote:

> > I take snapshots every 15 minutes, keeping 5. Then hourly snapshots,
> > keeping 25, daily snapshots keeping 8, weekly keeping 6 and monthly
> > snapshots that I clean manually as space requires.  
> 
> I doubt I will need anything so frequent, these days my data does not
> change often enough.  Daily snapshots should do the trick and I could
> keep more of them.

Snapshots don't take up any space if the data does not change, so
frequent snapshots don't hurt. The biggest impact on snapshot sizes on a
Gentoo system is kernel source package updates.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes!

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