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On Tue, 27 May 2014 07:38:01 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Snapshotting hourly would mostly be a convenience - in theory it |
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> should get you time-machine-like functionality just like hourly |
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> backups would, but with far less overhead and space use. |
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> In practice I stopped doing this, as btrfs can misbehave when you |
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> start getting a lot of snapshots accumulated (we're talking |
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I've read that too. I'm looking at doing a kind of round robin thing |
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where a script makes a snapshot and then deletes the oldest one. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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... "I'm simply not a nice girl", she whispered tartly. |