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Negative, you wont know you _need_ to use the backups without these FS features, and by the time you finally do you could have rotated through them.
by kev009 9y ago
Negative, you wont know you _need_ to use the backups without these FS features, and by the time you finally do you could have rotated through them.
- fulafel 9y agoThe article didn't mention backups at all. If a SOHO environment can afford only either backups or a ZFS storage system, choosing backups leaves much less residual risk on the table. Yes, there is still a risk that corrupted data may end up in backups, but that's true even with ZFS. Ideally you want end-to-end integrity checking and verification, that means application layer and should also be done for backups. But like with all risk management, there are diminishing returns...
- kev009 9y agoThat is the most contrived nonsense I've heard in a long time. You can't not afford to use ZFS, it works fine on a single disk and at least you'd know your data had mutated.