Comment on Filesystem and virtualization decisions for homeserver build
nesc@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
Don’t fret about ssd lifespan, unless you are planning on writing tb a day they will outlive your setup. I wouldn’t personally use zfs for this, unless you have a lot of memory just laying around.
thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Fair about the SSD life. How would you go about achieving the frequent backups without zfs? I wouldn’t want to implement it separately for every app I use, though I’m open to it if this doesn’t work out.
I’ll easily buy more memory if needed, the box now has 8GB and isn’t struggling in any way.
nesc@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
I won’t use fs snapsots as backups especially one as poorly supported on linux as zfs. I would go with external qcow disk snapshots and they can be pretty easily automated.
thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
This is what I’m doing currently, but it’s not really feasible to have the services shut down hourly for snapshots. This is indeed why I started looking towards filesystem-level snapshotting Obviously I will have other types of backups as well, I’m simply looking to have the on-the-fly immutable snapshot capability here somehow.
nesc@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
You do not need to shut down services to make snapshots, why would you?