Re: dragonfly system backups

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dmitri Nikulin wrote:
> Is there a really good reason not to tar the backups? It seems
> impossible to have 50 million tarballs/days of backups, so I infer
> that you're just doing a straight copy. Or maybe now's the time to
> homebrew a more intelligent backup system. Or just make the
> journalling layer useful for backups.

matt hardlinks files which didn't change since the last N-level run.  this way there is always a full directory structure available.  it's fairly straight forward *and* intelligent, just our FS isn't too happy about that.

cheers
 simon

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