I have 500gb hard disks, mirrored, for fossil and venti. I take ephemeral snapshots every 15 mins, kept for 7 days, and nightly archival snapshots kept forever. this has been running for just over 10 years. though not continuously😄
I have the same setup at wok and at home Steve > On 19 Nov 2014, at 10:27, dante <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > how often do you snapshot? How large is the SD? > I used a 32G SD with hourly snapshots, terminal server. > > I would sort of rule out the SD reliability. > After reinstalling on the corrupt SD with snapshots off, no crashes for > months of always-on. > > Thanks! > Dante > > On 19.11.2014 11:18, Steve Simon wrote: >>> I never knew that there was a known bug there: >>> got my frist Plan9 this summer. >>> I enabled snapshots on my Pi this summer and >>> got a corrupt file system within hours. >> Ah, >> Thanks for the info. >> I wonder if this is more to do with flash card reliability and the pi >> than fossil >> and snapshots. I have been running fossil with snapshots for a year or >> so now and >> not had a single crash. >> I only use my Pi as a terminal so its flash is pretty much readonly. >> -Steve
