On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:05 AM, Diogene Laerce <me_buss777@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Full_System_Backup_with_rsync > > Is there a trick I don't see here ? Because if the backup of those > directories > is enough for a full restoration of a system state, this method is far more > efficient than the others, isn't it ? As one does not need to reboot and > just have > to make a script or/and a cron job to make his own snapshot. I don't consider a backup and snapshot to be the same thing. Copying (or rsyncing) some directories to another volume is a backup. A snapshot is a deduplicated copy of something at a particular moment in time, on the same volume or storage pool. It's not a backup, in that if the pool implodes both the original and snapshot are lost. A snapshot can be used as a source for a backup, since you can make a snapshot that doesn't change while the backup is happening. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
