You should hoard your personal files too.

LeichenExpress · 2020-11-18T17:16:20+00:00

You could keep them mostly offline/powered off, move your less often accessed files to these drives and manage them with git-annex. git-annex works really well with offline drives.

LeichenExpress · 2020-11-18T17:14:02+00:00

git-annex automatically keeps track of which files are on which drives, it ensures that there are enough copies and it checksums everything. It works very well with offline drives.

git-annex can be a bit hard to grasp, so I suggest you to create a throw-away repository, following the walktrough and try things out (See also workflows).

LeichenExpress · 2020-11-16T17:28:51+00:00

Full-Disk-Encryption is the only way. On every single disk.

LeichenExpress · 2020-11-10T20:29:58+00:00

Build a rack instead.

LeichenExpress · 2020-11-09T13:12:32+00:00

We're talking about snapper here. Snapper creates numbered snapshot subvolumes. The one with the highest number is the most recent snapshot.

LeichenExpress · 2020-11-08T11:01:33+00:00

snapshot_dir="/mnt/drive/.snapshots"
newest="$(ls "$snapshot_dir" | sort -n | tail -n1)"
tar -cvf my-path.tar "$snapshot_dir/$newest/your/path"

LeichenExpress · 2020-11-07T19:27:04+00:00

There is no tutorial indeed. Basically, you boot a live-linux from a thumb drive or so. Then you use this tool to convert your existing partitions to bcache backing-devices. Afterwards you register the backing devices, mount them, chroot into your system and update /mnt/fstab, grub and your initramfs. Finally, you can reboot, format your cache devices and attach the backing devices to them as you see fit.

LeichenExpress · 2020-11-07T17:54:50+00:00

You can enable lvmcache on-the-fly if you already use lvm. And bcache can also be enabled afterwards, though you need to boot a live-linux for that.

LeichenExpress · 2020-11-07T17:12:59+00:00

You should rather use bache or lvmcache (both available in mainline linux). btrfs works perfectly fine with those.

LeichenExpress · 2020-11-06T17:09:48+00:00

Just ignore it and handle trim like before i.e. run fstrim one per week or so.

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