Bardur Arantsson posted on Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:17:52 +0100 as excerpted: > If you have no other backups, I would really recommend that you *don't* > use btrfs for your backup, or at least have a *third* backup which isn't > on btrfs -- there are *still* problems with btrfs that can potentially > wreck your backup filesystem. (Although it's obviously less likely if > the external HDD will only be connected occasionally.) > > Don't get me wrong, btrfs is becoming more and more stable, but I > wouldn't trust it with my *only* backup, especially if also running > btrfs on the backed-up filesystem.
This. My working versions and first backups are btrfs. My secondary backups are reiserfs (my old filesystem of choice, which has been very reliable for me), just in case both the btrfs versions bite the dust due to a bug in btrfs itself. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- 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
