From 91ea39f559135e282cd7bebf0e029fbd6ef2c8de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Orsiris de Jong Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 16:14:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a word about backup coherency --- README.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ef2c38f..70078dd 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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. # Results