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   Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:52 JST Tyler

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   • Matty
   • thefinn
   • Meanwhile In Ohio...
   Duh :pepe_nerd:
   
   Plus BTRFS CoW has significant overhead, and hardware sensitive.
   
   I had an older sata controller that HATED BTRFS and I would literally get 10mps write speed.
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     thefinn (thefinn@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:53 JST thefinn

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     • Matty
     • Meanwhile In Ohio...
     @matty @MeanwhileInOhio @tyler sometimes simple is better.
     
     Doing incremental backups can make retrieving things a complete pain in the ass.
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     Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:53 JST Tyler

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     • Matty
     • thefinn
     • Meanwhile In Ohio...
     BTRFS makes it pretty seamless with the snapshot capability, a tool like this: https://github.com/digint/btrbk
     
     I'd try that if I wanted to try BTRFS in a low performance high reliability backup scenario
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     thefinn (thefinn@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:53 JST thefinn

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     • Matty
     • Meanwhile In Ohio...
     @tyler @MeanwhileInOhio @matty Depends how much data we're talking about, otherwise I'd just do what matty is doing now.
     
     If it was prohibitive amounts of data, then yeah
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:54 JST Matty

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     And I thought I was smart using rsync over SSH just to dump the backups
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     Meanwhile In Ohio... (meanwhileinohio@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:54 JST Meanwhile In Ohio...

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     • Matty
     Ain't nothin' wrong with that. If you have a lot of small files that make up a website or something and you intend to compress them and transfer them elsewhere, that's just a quick way to do it. If you have existing compressed files as part of a backup script that runs on a schedule on the server, rsync is a good way to move them.
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:54 JST Matty

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     • Meanwhile In Ohio...
     I'll need to increase my brain cells on the Linux terminal. I'm sure there are much more creative and efficient ways I could set up my backups. Right now it's just a postgre dump, then gzip it, then send it to the offsite server.
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:55 JST Matty

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     why the - at the end?

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     Meanwhile In Ohio... (meanwhileinohio@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:55 JST Meanwhile In Ohio...

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     • Matty
     That tells tar to accept data from stdin from the pigz pipe.
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:56 JST Matty

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     Then I'll look into that for my offsite backups, regardless thank you!
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     Meanwhile In Ohio... (meanwhileinohio@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:56 JST Meanwhile In Ohio...

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     • Matty

     You'll like this...

     Backup in one command:

     ssh server “tar cv -C /folder . | pigz” > file.tar.gz

     Restore in one command:

     cat file.tar.gz | ssh server “pigz -dc | tar xv -C /folder -“

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     Meanwhile In Ohio... (meanwhileinohio@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:57 JST Meanwhile In Ohio...

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     • Matty
     Take a look at pigz, it's multi-threaded gzip. Good for large amounts of data.
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:57 JST Matty

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     • Meanwhile In Ohio...
     That might be useful for when I take backups or if I were to do a restoration in the future.
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     Meanwhile In Ohio... (meanwhileinohio@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:57 JST Meanwhile In Ohio...

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     • Matty
     It can multi-thread the compression, but not the decompression. Something with the way the file is structured.
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     Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:58 JST Tyler

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     • Matty
     Anyway Matty I answered your tar question earlier
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:58 JST Matty

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     I saw that, thank you. Whenever I create tarballs I use -czvf so I guess there's no need to gzip it
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:21:59 JST Matty
     benis
     how should I sneed?
     slap my goobis
     chuckin' through the window