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		LTL_FTC 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HD... By any chance, would you be willing to expand on your approach? What tools are using for this? How is it set up?

sneak 7 months ago [–]

make a zfs temp snapshot, cd to snapshot dir, rsync it somewhere (usually rsync over ssh), cd out of snapshot dir, delete snapshot, do it again. it’s fairly easy to script. i usually run it via runit in /etc/service/realtimesync or such.

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