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My previously decribed btrfs/btrbk snapshots-setup runs pretty well so far. But it needs some tweaking.
Taking a look at the most common large files that changed between my backup snapshots, I stumbled upon a stunningly huge mlocate.db file of 2.5...
mlocate.db
In my a previous post, I showed how to create very efficient snapshots and versioned backups to hard drives installed in or attached to your server.
Now we have a time machine and some redundancy. If I delete a file by accident, I can recover it from...
In my a previous post, I showed how to install Ubuntu 18.04 with btrfs filesystem. Now let's use the superpowers of btrfs and create awesome backups.
My setup: A server running Ubuntu 18.04 on a two ssd-drives in a btrfs raid1 configuration. In addition...
Btrfs is an advanced file system. It supports compression, keeps checksums on every block and you can make snapshots.
Hard disks and SSDs are physical devices that can break. A bit can flip and a 0 becomes a 1. It's rare and...
