Hallo, Calvin, Du meintest am 21.04.11:
>> I have set up a backup server in the garage which does rsync backups >> of all my servers weekly, and snapshots those backups. [...] > You have nothing to worry about. You can delete any snapshot on btrfs > without losing data from any other snapshot. Each snapshot is > completely independent. > This works because data which is shared between multiple snapshots is > reference counted, and won't be deleted until you remove the last > snapshot that references that data. That sounds like "hard links"; I use that with my favourite backup program "rsnapshot". I like it. But: if the (only) target of the (many) hard links fails, then it fails in all backups. It's a very good idea to make monthly or yearly backups of one such hard linked backup to another disk. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
