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 1867215838C for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:50:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 562742BC054; Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97C962BC04C for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rVCqu-0006MT-8y for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:50:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme? Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:50:11 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <8f5371a5-07af-456e-8517-cb9bb664fac4@youngman.org.uk> 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: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 1989e2c8-caab-4493-89de-f5346714851c X-Archives-Hash: cca0d3cd727dcfc8485ce0ae30f66b45 On 2024-01-31, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:45 AM John Covici wrote: >> >> I know you said you wanted to stay with ext4, but going to zfs reduced >> my backup time on my entire system from several hours to just a few >> minutes because taking a snapshot is so quick and copying to another >> pool is also very quick. >> > > Honestly, at this point I would not run any storage I cared about on > anything but zfs. There are just so many benefits. I'll definitely put zfs on my list of things to play with. I've been a little reluctant in the past because it wasn't natively supported. I don't use an initrd (or modules in general). So, using a filesystem that isn't supported in-tree sounded like too much work. -- Grant