[Users] Ploop Incremental backups strategy

[Philipp Born]

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Hi,

this is eactly what I'm doing. Have a look at
https://github.com/TamCore/vzpbackup

Regards
Philipp

On 01.04.2015 14:22, Simon Barrett wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there any reason why I should not create snapshot a
> ploop-backed container each day (or hour, for that matter) then
> merge all outstanding snapshots at the end of the week (vzctl
> snapshot-delete) and compact it?  This would allow me to do
> efficient incremental backups to back up (using bacula, in this
> case) and I would imagine it's a core use case.
> 
> Are there any potential risks to be aware of (performance issues, 
> storage usage, corruption exposure)?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Simon
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