I have a home server that I’m using and hosting files on it. I’m worried about it breaking and loosing access to the files. So what method do you use to backup everything?

  • GammaScorpii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Interesting, I have noticed it’s very slow with initial backups. So snapshot replication sends one large file? What if you want to recover individual files?

    • ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You can access ZFS snapshots from the hidden .zfs folder at the root dir of your volume. From there you can restore individual files.

      There is also a command line tool (httm) that lists all snapshotted versions of a files and allows you to restore them.

      If the snapshot you want to restore from is on a remote machine, you can either send it over or scp/rsync the files from the .zfs directory.