BTRFS snapshot based backups
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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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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
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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