Re: Need help with incremental backup strategy (snapshots, defragmentingt & performance)

[Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:14:55 +0300
Marat Khalili <mkh@rqc.ru> wrote:

> Don't keep snapshots under rsync target, place them under ../snapshots 
> (if snapper supports this):

> Or, specify them in --exclude and avoid using --delete-excluded.

Both are good suggestions, in my case each system does have its own snapshots
as well, but they are retained for much shorter. So I both use --exclude to
avoid fetching the entire /snaps tree from the source system, and store
snapshots of the destination system outside of the rsync target dirs.

>Or keep using -x if it works, why not?

-x will exclude content of all subvolumes down the tree on the source side --
not only the time-based ones. If you take care to never casually create any
subvolumes content of which you'd still want backed up, then I guess it can
work.

-- 
With respect,
Roman