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My mentor told me: "get everything wrong, but get the backups right", as he was busy debugging the backup solution he had in place at my college (ZFS + NetApp +
by moviuro 11y ago
My mentor told me: "get everything wrong, but get the backups right", as he was busy debugging the backup solution he had in place at my college (ZFS + NetApp + rsync + sh + perl + tape).
On my own, I'd put CoW wherever possible. It's so easy to delete something on UNIX that it should also be easy to restore and CoW is without a doubt a no-brainer for this.
- KB1JWQ 11y agoBackups are stupidly easy. Restores, on the other hand...
- debacle 11y agoCoW?
- moviuro 11y agoCopy on Write, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write and http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot...