Re: Which better: rsync or snapshot + rsync --delete

2013-08-03 Thread Bart Noordervliet
Hi Martin, though I can't determine which is 'better' for you because I don't know what your aims are, I can recommend 'btrfs snapshot' together with 'rsync --inplace'. It is 'better' in the sense of disk-usage, because only the modified parts of files take up space in your snapshots. That only

Re: Which better: rsync or snapshot + rsync --delete

2013-08-03 Thread Kai Krakow
Martin m_bt...@ml1.co.uk schrieb: Which is 'best' or 'faster'? Take a snapshot of an existing backup and then rsync --delete into that to make a backup of some other filesystem? Or use rsync --link to link a new backup tree against a previous backup tree for the some other filesystem?

Which better: rsync or snapshot + rsync --delete

2013-08-02 Thread Martin
Which is 'best' or 'faster'? Take a snapshot of an existing backup and then rsync --delete into that to make a backup of some other filesystem? Or use rsync --link to link a new backup tree against a previous backup tree for the some other filesystem? Which case does btrfs handle the better?