btrfs for a simple and powerful backup system
I’ve been testing btrfs for some months now. One of the most interesting features of this file-system is its snapshoting capabilities. Before that I was using rsnapshot. The issue with rsnapshot is that its lowest atomic level for snapshotting is the files themselves using hard-links. So any database table where one row is changed is copied completely. Btrfs as you might guess will only copy the modified chunks (I don’t know the atomicity of them [but who cares?]). ...