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BTRFS snapshot based backups

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    muewe96
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    On my server I am currently using EXT4 as filesystem but I thinking of switching to BTRFS cause I made some good experience backuping my VM-host rootfs with btrfs snapshots and btrbk.

    So I thought it would be nice to use incremental BTRFS snapshots to backup large apps like Nextcloud directly with a BTRFS snapshot backup provider in Cloudron.

    Is something like this planned for Cloudron?

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    In one of the early versions of Cloudron we actually did use that feature for app backups, however it caused too many side-effects and instabilities with btrfs that we had to stop using this.

    While btrfs since then has made much progress, it is still not suitable for a server, which needs a rock-solid rootfs in my experience.

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    muewe96
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    Yes, that is true. COW seems to have a lot side-effects when it comes to vServer and databases.

    I will move the nextcloud data to a second disk with btrfs and build my own backup 🙂

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    ZFS is a more mature option.

    Life of sky tech

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    martin
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    @muewe96

    Fwiw, btrfs has been used for / for years now as default on OpenSUSE. This post sheds light on why, with XFS the default for /home, on that distro.

    I started using the "snapper" snapshot tool on a btrfs / on a desktop machine in daily use just to get used to it, very happy so far - but not a vServer.

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