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On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 09:19:09 +0200
Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:49 PM, jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 1 June 2016 at 01:35, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote:
> >>
> >> Any suggestion?
> >
> >
> > Obviously the first choice is zfs snapshots but if you're like me,
> > that's not a choice.
> >
> > I'd recommend something like borg backup:
> > https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/
> > http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
> 
> Thanks to all.
> Effectively ZFS is a kind of too much for my poor USB disks, also
> because I would like to have them a little more portable than ZFS will
> give me (I'm not aware of any commercial media center able to read
> from a ZFS storage).
> I will give a try to rsnapshot and borg.

	One thought for you - perhaps keep the master copy under ZFS for
snapshots and corruption protection and use rsnapshot or borg to copy to
more portable copies for use.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>