On Thursday 21 April, 2011 11:47:25 Calvin Walton wrote:
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
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:03 PM, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
Would it be good practice to say, once a year, do a completely new fresh
snapshot?
There's no such thing as new fresh snapshot.
You can create a new, empty subvolume.
Or you can create snapshot of existing root/subvolume, which
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
I have set up a backup server in the garage which does rsync backups of all my
servers weekly, and snapshots those backups. It works wonderfully, and I was
able to set it up thanks to help from this listserv, thank you.
But I'm accumulating quite a few backups now, unnecessarily. After a
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 10:17 -0700, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
I have set up a backup server in the garage which does rsync backups
of all my servers weekly, and snapshots those backups. It works
wonderfully, and I was able to set it up thanks to help from this
listserv, thank you.
But
