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What if you accidentally format the drive on the host with the ZFS snapshots? Won't that result in synchronizing the deletion of those files to all your other d
by dagenix 5y ago
What if you accidentally format the drive on the host with the ZFS snapshots? Won't that result in synchronizing the deletion of those files to all your other devices?
- deckard1 5y agosyncthing has send-only and receive-only folders. You can set a receive-only folder on your backup device and send-only on your phone or whatever. With incremental backups it's not an issue. Syncthing is just the tool to get your data to the place it needs to be. Just like rsync or cp Anyone taking backups seriously already knows the 3-2-1 rule anyway.
- _h9mb 5y agoSyncthing frequently stops syncing on my phone and requires me to delete everything and resync. I'm using receive-only folders. I think I'm an exception but it's been a pain in the ass.
- multiply 5y agoYes, for his setup (if I understand right). I'm suggesting having two hosts with ZFS snapshots running (independent of each other) with Syncthing between. So if you delete the files on one host and they get Syncthing'd across there will still be a ZFS snapshot history on the other host. I'd also have a cold storage backup on hand that is also ZFS. Having your backup as a regular filesystem is a very nice feature once it comes to recovery.