Thanks for your answer. Let me know if I understood your approach correctly. You have a directory in a btrfs filesystem that is the target of your backups. When you make a backup, you take a brtfs snapshot of this directory and *then* use rsync. Is this correct?
Regards. On 17/08/17 12:50, Nicolas George wrote: > [[elided]] > > We used a similar setup on a server, using the rsnapshot script. But we > have users with huge mbox files that were copied entirely each time. We > changed for a setup with normal rsync (no --link-dest) and btrfs > snapshots, it increased the efficiency (storage and disk bandwidth) > dramatically. > > Regards,
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