On 22/08/20 08:25, Peter Grandi wrote: >>> [...] Note that it IS a shingled drive, so fine for backup, >>> >> much less so for anything else. > It is fine for backup especially if used as a tape that is say > divided into partitions and backup is done using 'dd' (but > careful if using Btrfs) or 'tar' or similar. If using 'rsync' or > similar those still write a lot of inodes and often small files > if they are present in the source. > The idea is an "in place" rsync, with lvm or btrfs or something providing snapshots. That way, I have full backups each of which only takes up the marginal space required by an incremental :-) Cheers, Wol
