Re: Home Directory in SSD

Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2016, 22:06:16 CET schrieb Jos Collin:
> On 02/07/2016 03:50 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > If you have both an SSD and a HD in your machine, how about rsync or BTRFS
> > send and receive to regularily backup /home from SSD to HD?
> > 
> > With BTRFS on the HD, you can even snapshot your backup states and if you
> > accidentally delete a file get it back from a backup. I think I´d use it
> > if
> > that laptop would still have an SSD.
> > 
> > Right now I use BTRFS RAID 1 on two SSDs for important data like the data
> > in /
> > home:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> I'm new to btrfs. Does this sync the /home in the SSD to HDD on the fly
> (like a periodic rsync), without me entering commands ? I need something
> that happens automatically and regularly.
> 
> For the time being, I am mounting a partition in HDD to /home until I
> find a better method.

btrfs send/receive are implemented in the btrfs command.

As with rsync you would have to setup some script / cron job to them to happen 
regularily.

-- 
Martin