Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --check-destination-dir taking a very long time

[Robert Nichols]

On 9/12/19 7:55 AM, Patrik Dufresne wrote:
> For a server, I would recommend ZFS without hesitation. Data integrity is
> at the heart of ZFS which makes it a very good choice for backup storage.
> It provides many features that ease the storage management. Quota,
> compression, configurable record size, configurable sync writes, raidz,
> snapshots, etc.
>
>
> For an external storage, like a USB drive, I would probably pick BTRFS for
> interchangeability reason. ZFS might still be used for an external drive,
> but required the installation of ZFS on Linux to be working which is not
> installed by default. While BTRFS is shipped as part of Linux Kernel. So in
> case of emergency, you might plug the disk in almost any Linux computer and
> get access to your files. BTRFS provide checksum and copy on write feature
> that you want to ensure data integrity. But I would not recommend BTRFS for
> any RAID setup. RAID5/6 is known to be buggy for a couple of years. I would
> not trust my data on a BTRFS RAID. But for a single drive it's a very good
> alternative to ext4

Note that BTRFS is no longer supported in RHEL 8. "You can no longer create, mount, 
or install on Btrfs file systems in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8." (Quoted from 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/)

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