From eb32378c263f10a103c569206cbe6e588a27a8de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:34:16 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add rsnapshot post pointing out Walter Werther's Btrfs tricks. --- posts/rsnapshot.mdwn | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/rsnapshot.mdwn diff --git a/posts/rsnapshot.mdwn b/posts/rsnapshot.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f7e97e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/rsnapshot.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[rsnapshot][] is a backup utility that uses [rsync][] to backup files +over the network. Backups to my external [Btrfs][] drive were +dragging, with a lot of time and processor power spend running `cp` +and `rm`. With a [COW][] filesystem like btrfs, this is wasted +processor time and disk activity, so I migrated to using Btrfs +snapshots instead. Walter Werther has a [good write up][WW]. The +idea is to configure rsnapshot to use scripts that wrap `btrfs` +instead of your system's `cp` and `rm` programs. Walter's put the +relavant script on [GitHub][]: [cp][] and [rm][]. + +[rsnapshot]: http://www.rsnapshot.org/ +[rsync]: http://rsync.samba.org/ +[Btrfs]: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/ +[COW]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_on_write +[WW]: http://wwerther.de/2011/10/migrate-rsnapshot-based-backup-to-btrfs-snapshots/ +[GitHub]: http://github.com/ +[cp]: https://gist.github.com/1306185 +[rm]: https://gist.github.com/1306189 -- 2.26.2