My SSD suddenly died. I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS and zrepl.
  • sbonds@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    I don’t back up my drives, I replicate them.

    There is a lesson about unnoticed data damage in someone’s future.

    What happens when a software bug, ransomware, or hardware problem destroys or corrupts that data over days or months?

  • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    I’ve been using ZFS for a little while now and have been intending to take advantage of snapshotting more. I’m going to have to try this out.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    This is why you shouldn’t use ZFS on a boot drive. Btrfs is much better and doesn’t have the same issues. You can’t use it for more than raid1 but most drives are single drive only. Just make sure to backup your luks security key in case of corruption.

    • AliasAKA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Reading the article I’m not sure why I should t use ZFS on a boot drive. The author does, and was able to set up a nice incremental (encrypted) backup solution that was able to get them back up and running relatively quickly.

      Only thing I can think is the manual nature of it maybe? I don’t see how btrfs would be better here based on the article unless I missed something perhaps?

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        ZFS isn’t part of the kernel for legal reasons. You will need to jump though hoops to make it work. (More accurately, your computer jumps though hoops to male it work)