People who use HAMMER also tend to backup their filesystems using
the streaming mirroring feature. You need a backup anyway, regardless.
definitely. Backups are different thing.
But i do not consider online mirroring from hammer as backup feature, but
something like more sophisticated mirroring.
As long as backed up data is available on line for writing i don't
consider it backup.
I use rsync for backing up everything, with backup machine located on
different place, and not accessible from outside internet.
the fact that the copies are all being managed from the same machine).
and that this copies are not ever regenerated.
failures over the years, mostly blamed on failed writes to disks or
people not having UPS's (since UFS was never designed to work with
a disk synchronization command, crashes from e.g. power failures could
Seems you are quite out of date with FreeBSD. FreeBSD UFS do perform disk
cache flushes at right time.
