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Add a word about backup coherency
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deajan committed Oct 2, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ The following list is my personal shopping list when it comes to backup solution
- (3) see https://bford.info/cachedir/
- (4) For bupstash, CRIME/BREACH style attacks are mitigated if you disable read access for backup clients, and keep decryption keys off server.

A quick word about backup coherence:

While some backup tools might detect filesysetm changes inflight, it's usually the burden of a snapshot system (zfs, bcachefs, lvm, btrfs, vss...) to provide the backup program a reliable static version of the filesystem.
Still it's a really nice to have in order to detect problems on backups without those snapshot aware tools, like plain XFS/EXT4 partitions.

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