How to make a redundant desktop system with daily snapshots? (Is btrfs ready for use?)
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I want to configure a desktop system in which the home filesystem would be redundant (e.g. RAID-1), and would have weekly snapshots taken. I've already done this with ZFS, the snapshot system is wonderful, and with send/recv you can easily create backups on external media. Unfortunately, at that po…
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While nobody has officially blessed it, I'd personally guess that it's ready for production use. Some reasons that are typically given for not using it in production: the on-disk format may not be stable, there is no , there is no support available.…
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