Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, backuppc@kosowsky wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > I'm deploying a system with an external (USB) 1.5 TB drive. How should I > > format it? (Ie. which filesystem is best for this?) > > I just built

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:05 PM wrote: > ... Snapshots have also saved me when I have run across the occasional > backuppc gremlin of disappearing files in that I can find the cpool > file and revert it from past snapshots. Are you sure that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread backuppc
G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:44:57 + on Friday, February 5, 2021: > Hi there, > > On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 Les Mikesell wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:05 PM wrote: > > > > > ... Snapshots have also saved me when I have run across the occasional > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Robert Trevellyan
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:34 PM wrote: > G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:44:57 + on Friday, > February 5, 2021: > > Hi there, > > > > On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 Les Mikesell wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:05 PM wrote: > > > > > > > ... Snapshots have also

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:45 AM Robert Trevellyan wrote: > > Is there any reason not to choose ZFS? Even without redundancy, you'll at > least know if it's corrupted. ZFS on Linux is always problematic because Linus wants it to be. Ext4 is the path of least resistance and I've always found its

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-02-05 06:26, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, backuppc@kosowsky wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > I'm deploying a system with an external (USB) 1.5 TB drive. How should I > > format

[BackupPC-users] Perl error on FreeBSD

2021-02-05 Thread absolutely_free--- via BackupPC-users
Hi, I am using BackupPC 3 on two FreeBSD 12.1 servers. On both servers, I am unable to run backups, I get error: Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.32/File/RsyncP.pm line 554. I tried with CLI, I got exact same error. $ perl -v This

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Robert Trevellyan
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:53 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:45 AM Robert Trevellyan > wrote: > > > > > Is there any reason not to choose ZFS? Even without redundancy, you'll > at least know if it's corrupted. > > ZFS on Linux is always problematic because Linus wants it to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Doug Lytle
>>> Problematic in what way? It's been silky smooth for me with Ubuntu >From what I've read, ZFS on Linux is not GPL compliant. Doug ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:02 PM Robert Trevellyan wrote: > Problematic in what way? It's been silky smooth for me with Ubuntu. Because it is not GPL and the kernel has a restriction against linking anything that can't be distributed under the GPL. So, you either have the overhead of FUSE or

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Robert Trevellyan
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:34 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:02 PM Robert Trevellyan > wrote: > > > Problematic in what way? It's been silky smooth for me with Ubuntu. > > Because it is not GPL and the kernel has a restriction against linking > anything that can't be

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:25 PM Robert Trevellyan wrote: > I'm pretty sure my Ubuntu systems are not using FUSE to access ZFS. If that > means I have to trust the lawyers for Canonical as to the legality of using > ZFS on Ubuntu, so be it. https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/13/zfs_linux/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Perl error on FreeBSD

2021-02-05 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
What version of File::RsyncP is this? Craig On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 4:01 AM absolutely_free--- via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using BackupPC 3 on two FreeBSD 12.1 servers. > > On both servers, I am unable to run backups, I get error: > > Can't

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Robert Trevellyan
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:41 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:25 PM Robert Trevellyan > wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure my Ubuntu systems are not using FUSE to access ZFS. If > that means I have to trust the lawyers for Canonical as to the legality of > using ZFS on Ubuntu, so be

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread backuppc
Les Mikesell wrote at about 13:40:00 -0600 on Friday, February 5, 2021: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:25 PM Robert Trevellyan > wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure my Ubuntu systems are not using FUSE to access ZFS. If > > that means I have to trust the lawyers for Canonical as to the legality of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:00 PM Robert Trevellyan < robert.trevell...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:41 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:25 PM Robert Trevellyan >> wrote: >> >> > I'm pretty sure my Ubuntu systems are not using FUSE to access ZFS. If >> that