On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Btrfs tends to have scaling issues if you let the number of snapshots get > too high. Try to keep it under 300 snapshots per subvolume (combined > between all tools) if at all possible, and if your use-case makes it easy > enough, try to keep it under 100 snapshots per subvolume. Definitely > don't let it get into the thousands of snapshots per subvolume, or > commands such as btrfs balance and btrfs check will take MUCH longer and > use MANY TIMES more memory. Thanks for the heads up on that. I didn't find this info anywhere so I will definitely do that. I don't think I'll even need that many snapshots in the first place. Since this is a dedicated backup server that I'll set and forget, I'll keep a snapshot every couple of hours for the first day and a daily snapshot for a week. I'll be backing the root partition on another computer anyway. Since I'll be trying out several backup software to see which one suits me best I'll use Snapper prior to installing each software. I'm very excited since Btrfs will make this super easy -- 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
