Reliable Firewire drives

Scott Ribe scott_ribe at killerbytes.com
Fri Jan 11 06:46:50 PST 2008


> ZFS makes this second part of TM irrelevant as it handles changed
> files 1) automatically 2) transparently 3) absolutely.  It is a much
> better 'backup' scheme than the one employed by TM.  For this portion
> of TM, the underlying FS is highly relevant.

I don't think so. I think you have to explicitly take a snapshot in order to
preserve versions, otherwise the space for old blocks remains eligible for
reuse.

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