<div dir="ltr"><div>We looked at BTRFS at work a few months ago and decided that it wasn't ready for prime time yet. I wonder if it's improved since then? We're happy with ext4 and LVM.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 19:08, <a href="mailto:bob%2Bkwlug@softscape.ca">bob+kwlug@softscape.ca</a> <<a href="mailto:bob%2Bkwlug@softscape.ca">bob+kwlug@softscape.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Nothing to add to this but just wanted to give a<br>
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For use of BTRFS. Love that FS.<br>
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BB<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: kwlug-disc [mailto:<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org</a>] On Behalf Of Remi<br>
> Gauvin<br>
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 5:57 PM<br>
> To: KWLUG discussion<br>
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Transferring large backup files over the network<br>
> <br>
> On 2019-05-23 4:40 p.m., Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:<br>
> <br>
> >><br>
> ><br>
> > Hrm. That brings to mind the (non-FLOSS) Windows Subsystem for Linux.<br>
> > The problem with many of these "compile Linux tools on Windows" is<br>
> > that they are often limited to 32-bit (although I am not sure whether<br>
> > MobaXterm is). That actually has caused problems for me in my backups<br>
> > when I have tried to use various Rsync for Windows tools in the past.<br>
> ><br>
> > But if I install Linux in Windows using WSL, then the 64 bit versions<br>
> > of these tools might be available, and then maybe NTFS is not going to<br>
> > be the bottleneck any more.<br>
> ><br>
> <br>
> I just use Cygwin for this purpose. Neither NTFS nor 32-bitness are a<br>
> problem, and I have no idea why you think they would be. I do not,<br>
> however, preserve the permissions / Ownership of the Windows host to the<br>
> backup.<br>
> <br>
> Sample rsync:<br>
> <br>
> (Note: The --inplace is because I'm using BTRFS and snapshots on the<br>
> backup side. You would not use it otherwise.)\<br>
> <br>
> Note2: I have encountered problems with rsync compression and some multi<br>
> GB files. Compression is instead enabled in the ssh_config if sending<br>
> over a slow link.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> /usr/bin/rsync \<br>
> -a --no-o --no-g --no-p --chmod=ugo=rwX --info=STATS \<br>
> --inplace --exclude='.snapshots' --delete \<br>
> /nas/ \<br>
> destination_host:/data/nas/<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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