From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3DBA15800A for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:42:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B018FE0BAD; Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (mail.digimed.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F276E0B94 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 039C2191996 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2023 13:42:49 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 13:42:45 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS Message-ID: <20230729134245.7e2f07ef@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1959335.usQuhbGJ8B@lenovo> References: <2203025.72vocr9iq0@lenovo> <3497631.V25eIC5XRa@lenovo> <20230729080640.5d048a60@digimed.co.uk> <1959335.usQuhbGJ8B@lenovo> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/qN01dPmZ0IPQlljEK0xPdNv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 X-Archives-Salt: fa7d538e-420a-4562-8fc5-c8ac1bad0887 X-Archives-Hash: 6077da3e177e849687687c870e2964a1 --Sig_/qN01dPmZ0IPQlljEK0xPdNv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:47:53 +0100, Michael wrote: > > I take snapshots every 15 minutes, keeping 5. Then hourly snapshots, > > keeping 25, daily snapshots keeping 8, weekly keeping 6 and monthly > > snapshots that I clean manually as space requires. =20 >=20 > I doubt I will need anything so frequent, these days my data does not > change often enough. Daily snapshots should do the trick and I could > keep more of them. Snapshots don't take up any space if the data does not change, so frequent snapshots don't hurt. The biggest impact on snapshot sizes on a Gentoo system is kernel source package updates. --=20 Neil Bothwick Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes! --Sig_/qN01dPmZ0IPQlljEK0xPdNv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEGfLZTV7dXdQXh/dDdCdyyQfftocFAmTFCUUACgkQdCdyyQff tofxpQ//aOLpRR/+xxGDkaKg6+cv2EoQiCg1jWa+X1a0FBzUmOcDnjbgCjMdw7nP iJ8cgryaRvqgKjmNvouSx0XebqbZI2WKp41/r9rkd7y4w7drG8RjQ1W2IcgY7gOu V/r3etIhdNTIIJaryuMn+Z8oBHMFUdS6UU1b598K30sGigj73eaXVJyBx5QjKf3t 4+2RitYU61dntP9QbZSmoLLPK4R+8H7LQb4DuF8TU093tWF14IqMydjw0SGdYwQz zMqGdMsyRRe56pYL3LkraBT3JDn9YnfzOt2QmbLVPbXAcg1HIhqZThZE84kMIaug SbIHYyInXY9IiOYgKOBilVVq/AQrtbH21tsRD/WTOnmCQ34gHl/CBqC+mn+5Bgrr wVdTGUr9ZPZee5RnXruOO3PxvT4Ngz7QUicyYNv8IY9UyQqcvPX49cN7UdlUJPwI Dwz04zWGtZHZpuMpyk/MBDfpcqqFWAAlEl3+wtnqbQvsEyJnEnxUEY0EcE+BFLDv 56ei4Br+aqxCUr44BKs3WnlGOY4ttnpWzafhGU6MxI/5jN/D6FSWwTfVrZj5xZRi 9OqYg6lKFo4cn9HI6UfijtFmp4Xoa4p2rcr05NEaN9aU7Wl8UxSpvol++dgC4aAp jBbMK8xfJw1PdA0xeRBQX4dGLMgqwGDYcDHjEAlaim/2sRbkGdU= =vDow -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/qN01dPmZ0IPQlljEK0xPdNv--