On Wednesday 19 February 2014 10:00:49 Chris Murphy wrote: > On Feb 19, 2014, at 6:45 AM, GEO <1g2e3o4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I do not like the idea of making subvolumes of all directories I am not > > interested in backing up. > > Why? It addresses your use case. > > Chris Murphy I would prefer the idea of not snapshotting every directory I do not want to include, as there are almost more that I am not interested in. My question would simply be: Does the method going over the writeable snapshot and deleting things always lead to the same incremental end result as marking directories as snapshots that I am not interested in (apart from the additional empty directories created in case of the latter)? Furthermore hidden directories in home change very often, meaning if I install additional software, additional hidden directories may be created. So my script would have to mark them as snapshots every time. If I have hidden files, I cannot mark files as snapshots, so it is clear that my method makes sense. Once I have marked these directories snapshots and I want to create snapshots of my whole home subvolume I would always additionally have to specify those. So it makes the whole situation less manageable. Apart from that I find marking every directory I am not interested in as snapshots highly inelegant. So my question would be, if my preferred method is as reliable as the suggested method. Hope that's on the mailing list now :-). Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
