From: Tomasz Torcz <tomek@crocom.com.pl>
To: Eric Anopolsky <erpo41@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>,
Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>,
Zheng Yan <zheng.yan@oracle.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: snapshot merging?
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:27:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222252022.3186.43.camel@s1.crocom.com.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222246456.26395.16.camel@telesto>
Dnia 2008-09-24, =C5=9Bro o godzinie 02:54 -0600, Eric Anopolsky pisze:
> What do people use snapshots for?
=20
I use snapshots as "quick backup", as addition to full backups done by
Bacula. It much faster and easier to recover previous version of file
from snapshot than from backup software. Revert is not necessary.
OpenSolaris guys use snapshots for safe system upgrade. With ability t=
o
select rootfs from before upgrade at GRUB screen and boot into older
installation. Revert is crucial in case of wedged upgrade.
--=20
Tomasz Torcz
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-24 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-21 12:22 snapshot merging? Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-09-21 14:19 ` Zheng Yan
2008-09-21 14:31 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-09-21 15:00 ` Zheng Yan
2008-09-24 3:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2008-09-24 8:54 ` Eric Anopolsky
2008-09-24 10:27 ` Tomasz Torcz [this message]
2008-09-24 12:57 ` Chris Mason
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