Re: Filesystem for backup system

[Alex]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
 wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 11:25 -0400, Alex wrote:
> > I suppose I'm most familiar with ext4, although I understand xfs is
> > the default filesystem during install now.
>
> Where did you read that? AFAIK the default continues to be ext4.

I thought I recalled it being the default during install the last time
I performed one.
> > We're using a homegrown backup script that uses rsync with the
> > --link-dest option to preserve space. I'd like to move to bacula, but
> > don't have the time/resources right now.
>
> You might want to look at rsnapshot (www.rsnapshot.org), which is based
> on rsync.

Thanks, I'll check it out.