Rich Pieri challenged me with: > Or, you know, a ZFS or Btrfs snapshot. > Took me zero seconds to make my backup system do it all > automatically, plus about a minute to put together the little > script that does a scrub from cron every week.
It's a lot more than zero seconds to rebuild a big file server; converting 8TB of data from any fs to any other fs is a lot more than a few hours. Alas, the O/S distro that I'm currently using precludes the zero-effort solution that you recommend: btrfs has only been supported in very-recent O/S distros. Once I modernize these servers then I'll look into the btrfs conversion. I presume that btrfs is gaining traction faster than zfs but I'll leave that to the experts here. -rich _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
