Re: Understanding btrfs and backups => automatic snapshot script

2014-03-21 Thread Duncan
Marc MERLIN posted on Thu, 20 Mar 2014 22:57:33 -0700 as excerpted: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:42:24PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:33:24PM +, Duncan wrote: >> > However, best snapshot management practice does progressive snapshot >> > thinning, so you never have m

Re: Understanding btrfs and backups => automatic snapshot script

2014-03-20 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:42:24PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:33:24PM +, Duncan wrote: > > However, best snapshot management practice does progressive snapshot > > thinning, so you never have more than a few hundred snapshots to manage > > at once. Think of it thi

Re: Understanding btrfs and backups => automatic snapshot script

2014-03-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:33:24PM +, Duncan wrote: > However, best snapshot management practice does progressive snapshot > thinning, so you never have more than a few hundred snapshots to manage > at once. Think of it this way. If you realize you deleted something you > needed yesterday,