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On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:37:52 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> I use snapper from portage. Snapper itself works just fine. I've |
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> found that trying to integrate it into portage (before/after snapshots |
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> on every emerge) is just way too much overhead (it goes fast, but you |
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> end up with a bazillion snapshots). Also, I've had deadlock problems |
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> with deleting multiple snapshots at once, which is certainly a kernel |
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> problem. So, right now I'm using snapper to manage snapshots but I do |
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> not use time/event-based snapshots at all - I just create them when |
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> needed and clean them up manually, and carefully. |
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I use a home-brewed script to make time based snapshots, called from |
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cron - a little like zfs-auto-snapshot. I set a limit on the number of |
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each type of snapshot so the script generally creates one snapshot and |
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deletes one snapshot for each subvolume whenever it is called, avoiding |
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the need to ever have a gazillion snapshots to delete. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Everything else being equal, fat people use more soap. |
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