Re: Backups with rsync [Was: Is my root partition dying?]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:25:29 AM Trent W. Buck via luv-main wrote:

Or see btrfs/ZFS snapshots. These operate per block rather than per inode, so should be more effective and less failure-prone in edge cases (hint, there's an upper limit on hard link count).

Yeah, I use both rsnapshot backups on ext4 and btrfs snapshots (both on external drives) and where I rsync with --inplace --no-whole-file for the btrfs side. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC