I currently have two computers, one that has a big zfs raidz pool that I currently back everything up to. Right now, on my local computer I use rsnapshot to do snapshot backups via rsync to the remote zfs pool. I know I’m wasting a ton of space because I have snapshotting in the rsync backup, and then the zfs pool is snapshotted every day.

Does it make sense to just do a regular rsync into a backup directory on the zfs pool and then just rely on the zfs pool snapshotting for snapshotting?

Maybe eventually I will put the local machine on zfs and then just send the local zfs snapshots over, but that will take some time. Thanks!

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    9 months ago

    Hm, so send doesn’t “create the same state, bits and snapshots” on the other side. Instead it “adds net new snapshots” on the other side. 🤔

    Perhaps I could use send instead of Syncthing after all. But then again I’m typically syncing net new data so the optimization would be minimal.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      I believe there is a method to do a 1-1 build copy, but my expertise ends at this point