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ZFS also protects you from data corruption, while mere backups don't - they'll happily overwrite good files with corrupt ones.
by deogeo 7y ago
ZFS also protects you from data corruption, while mere backups don't - they'll happily overwrite good files with corrupt ones.
- chopin 7y agoNot if you are snapshotting, this is what I do. Rsync makes this very easy and space saving. My main threat scenarios are hardware failures and encrypting trojans. Snapshotting (if done right) protects also against the latter.
- pm7 7y agoWill you detect data corruption before your snapshots rotate? ZFS controls saved data. Also, it saves more more space then rsync as it can store just the difference (rsync will copy whole file if changed, which makes things like snapshots of virtual machine very impractical).