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On 31/07/2021 05:58, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Its not raid, just a btrfs single on disk (no partition). Contains a |
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> single borgbackup repo for an offline backup of all the online |
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> borgbackup repo's I have for a 3 times a day backup rota of individual |
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> machines/data stores - I get an insane amount of de-duplication that way |
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> for a slight decrease in conveniance! |
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So - are you using btrfs's replication ability to push a backup? Does it |
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just push the changed blocks? |
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I'm planning to pull a similar stunt - I've got my eye on an 8TB Toshiba |
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N300, which I shall put lvm on, and then (my filesystems are all ext4) |
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do a snapshot and in-place rsync. |
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Given that my entire dataset is about 2.5TB (including films, photos etc |
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that don't change), again, I've got a massive amount of space to hold |
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backups for ages ... |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |