On 04/08/20 08:42, Wols Lists wrote: > Both LVM and btrfs offer snapshotting, so you take a snapshot before > doing an in-place rsync, giving you one full backup per snapshot, but > the drive is actually only storing the changes between snapshots. > Probably run the backup much faster too.
Just strikes me this would be near ideal for an SMR drive, because this would be copy-on-write, so the backup would just be streaming new data to disk. And by judiciously choosing when to delete snapshots, you have considerable control over when the drive decides to do a defrag. Cheers, Wol
