Hi everyone,
To prevent against human error, I currently have a nightly script that
does daily and weekly "snapshots" of a filesystem using tar + gzip. I end
up with one "as of last night" set of tar.gz's, and one "as of last
Sunday" set of tar.gz's that I access when things go wrong (user side, not
machine failure). Agreeably this takes quite awhile to finish (luckily
activity at night isn't significant), plus it takes up a lot of disk
space.
I've just been reading posts about snapshotting, and was wondering where I
could get more information about this. In particular I wonder if the
snapshotting of XFS (?) will help me save space, and will be faster. Also,
my tar + gzip solution won't preserve ACLs anymore when I implement them
(I'll probably wait for the major revamping of the code to more or less
settle down before I do this). Note that I don't have LVM.
I'm I reading snapshotting all wrong? Or perhaps is there some other
alternative solution to my requirement?
Thanks in advance, everyone! :)
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