Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > I use snapper from portage. Snapper itself works just fine. Good to know > > found that trying to integrate it into portage (before/after snapshots > > on every emerge) is just way too much overhead (it goes fast, but you > > end up with a bazillion snapshots). Also, I've had deadlock problems > > with deleting multiple snapshots at once, which is certainly a kernel > > problem. Also very good to know. Ftrace/trace-cmd/kernelshark surely would be great to use for this. http://zougloub.eu/overlay/sys-kernel/trace-cmd/ I have not tested this yet.............. > > So, right now I'm using snapper to manage snapshots but I do > > not use time/event-based snapshots at all - I just create them when > > needed and clean them up manually, and carefully. Well my setup is going to be (2) 2T sata-3 drives in a mirrored configuration. So yea, manual will porbably be just fine for me too. > I use a home-brewed script to make time based snapshots, called from > cron - a little like zfs-auto-snapshot. I set a limit on the number of > each type of snapshot so the script generally creates one snapshot and > deletes one snapshot for each subvolume whenever it is called, avoiding > the need to ever have a gazillion snapshots to delete. Sounds good. I grabbed a copy. I drop you a line, if I run into troubles using buttersnap. cheers, James
