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Re: Live Fille System Backup

From Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Live Fille System Backup
Date 2017-05-09 15:20 +0200
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On 2017-05-09, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 12:03:14PM +0000, Curt wrote:
>> Because someone mentioned Btrfs and its backup "magic," I'm looking at
>> the wiki, which says (amongst other things):
>> 
>> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Incremental_Backup
>> 
>>  Instant, Atomic COW Snapshots
>>   Since the snapshots are atomic, when a snapshot is restored it appears to
>>   applications as if a power loss had occurred (and the filesystem has gone back
>>   to an earlier state). Thus it is possible to backup databases without stopping
>>   them beforehand. 
>
> So, basically the same as LVM snapshots, which are independent of the
> type of file system that sits on the LVM logical volume.
>
> But btrfs is an edge with more blood on it, so people are naturally
> drawn to it.  It's also more complicated.  So it's *got* to be better!!!
>

Put me down for uncomplicated. I'll probably just stick with rsyncing my
home directory (which is all I'm interested in backing up) to external
usb-attached volumes and be done with it.

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Live Fille System Backup Sergei G <sergeig.public@gmail.com> - 2017-05-05 01:20 +0200
  Re: Live Fille System Backup Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2017-05-05 03:50 +0200
    Re: Live Fille System Backup Sergei G <sergeig.public@gmail.com> - 2017-05-05 06:50 +0200
      Re: Live Fille System Backup Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-05 09:00 +0200
        Re: Live Fille System Backup Sergei G <sergeig.public@gmail.com> - 2017-05-05 22:40 +0200
          Re: Live Fille System Backup Sergei G <sergeig.public@gmail.com> - 2017-05-05 23:20 +0200
            Re: Live Fille System Backup Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-05-06 00:00 +0200
              Re: Live Fille System Backup conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2017-05-06 01:30 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-05-06 02:30 +0200
          Re: Live Fille System Backup Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-05-06 00:00 +0200
          Re: Live Fille System Backup <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-06 08:00 +0200
            Re: Live Fille System Backup Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-05-06 12:50 +0200
              Re: Live Fille System Backup tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-05-06 16:00 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-05-06 19:20 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-06 21:50 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-05-06 23:10 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-05-07 01:00 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-07 12:00 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-07 14:50 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-07 17:00 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup Sergei G <sergeig.public@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 00:50 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup Sergei G <sergeig.public@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 01:10 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-05-09 10:00 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-09 14:10 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-09 14:30 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-05-09 15:20 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-05-09 14:10 +0200
                Re: Live Fille System Backup <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-09 14:30 +0200
  Re: Live Fille System Backup <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-05 09:20 +0200
  Re: Live Fille System Backup Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2017-05-06 01:00 +0200
  Re: Live Fille System Backup Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-05-12 15:00 +0200
    Re: Live Fille System Backup Sergei G <sergeig.public@gmail.com> - 2017-05-25 05:40 +0200

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