Re: [BackupPC-users] Block-level rsync-like hashing dd?

Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de> wrote on 04/13/2011 06:01:54 PM: > > is because I have it going to an iSCSI target on a machine with ZFS which > > snapshots the pool. The key there is I'm taking snapshots of it so even if > > it corrupts, I'm fine. All I'd have to do is mount the .img as EXT4 in an > > iSCSI target and point a client to that target to retrieve the files. > > If you want an honest opinion, that sounds like a few random sentences to me, > fabricated to include certain keywords. To me, it doesn't make any sense > whatsoever.

It it didn't to me, either. And I deal with this stuff (iSCSI, snapshots, loopback images, NAS, SAN, etc.) on a pretty regular basis.

> Are you sure you *understand* the concepts you are talking about?

I'm sure he does *not*, once he said he's protecting against filesystem corruption with snapshots...

<Lots of *very* good advice snipped>
> Hope that helps. > > Regards, > Holger
I gotta say, I hope Saturn takes what you wrote to heart. I had told myself I was certainly not going to reply to a post from him on this thread again, and possibly never reply to *any* of his threads ever again. But I'm glad that *you* did: you wrote the same thing I wrote and was *certainly* thinking but I would have done it with a slightly more... aggressive tone.

Timothy J. Massey


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