-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18/07/14 05:35, Russell Coker wrote: > Daily snapshots work welk with kernel 3.14 and above (I had > problems with 3.13 and previous). I have snapshots every 15 mins on > some subvols. > > Very large numbers of snapshots can cause performance problems. I > suggest keeping below 1000 snapshots at this time. > > You can use send/recv functionality for remote backups. So far I've > used rsync, it works well and send/recv has some limitations about > filesystem structure etc. Rsync can transfer to a ext4 or ZFS > filesystem if you wish. > > Ignoring directories in send/recv is done by subvol. Even if you > use rsync it's a good idea to have different subvols for directory > trees with different backup requirements. > > Displaying backups is an issue of backup software. It is above the > level that BTRFS development touches. While people here can > probably offer generic advice on backup software it's not the topic > of the list. > > I use date based snapshots on my backup BTRFS filesystems and I can > easily delete snapshots in the middle of the list. > I also backup to an external attached drive using rsync followed by a snapshot. I have written a small python script that does this, followed by deleting snapshots older than 90 days.
Restoring backed up data is done using a file manager. I'm happy to share my script. Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.11.10-17-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.13.3 Uptime: 06:00am up 1 day 22:01, 4 users, load average: 0.87, 0.50, 0.24 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlPIznwACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU5hZwCglxUmkd+oX3ktsFBQ2gD4Twth 5ucAn38QDkNJflmRZwH/G662DBGRd38J =kN69 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
