Re: [9fans] fossil+venti vs. cwfs - dealing with backups

2018-04-16 Thread Steven Stallion
The easiest method with cwfs or Ken's is to keep track of the size of the WORM - since everything is appended, it's fairly simple to copy the set of blocks after each dump. It's been a few years since I've done this, but it is just as reliable as venti, albeit less convenient. On Mon, Apr 16, 2018

[9fans] fossil+venti vs. cwfs - dealing with backups

2018-04-16 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
What has kept me running fossil+venti is the ease of backing up the file server. Copying the venti arenas offsite is trivial. And Geoff put together glue to write sealed arenas to blu-ray as well. I don't see any simple way to do that with cwfs*. Or hjfs. I am very curious to know how the