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by sysashi
2294 days ago
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sorry for offtopic. there a broken link that I was interested to read on. its on https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/rsync.html ctrl+f "rsync snapshots are detailed here" I think given the topic, someone is expected to figure it out on their own (remember linux cake?), but I feel a bit lazy after a work day.. sorry |
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The definitive page for rsync snapshots has been, and always will be, here:
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
... we actually don't want people to do rsync snapshots anymore because ZFS snapshots are much more efficient and use up less of their rsync.net account.
If you change one bit of a file, the rsync snapshot method will cost the entire size of that file, since it's a hard link and is either broken or not broken.
But if you just do a "dumb" sync to us and change one bit in the file, your ZFS snapshot will take up just one more bit.
So not only do you get a much simpler backup script - you can really just do a dumb sync to us and let us rotate your snapshots - but you get more efficient space usage for changed files.