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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Should I use a CoW filesystem on my PC if I only wanted snapshot capabilities ? Post 303044632 by Neo on Friday 28th of February 2020 09:22:40 AM
Old 02-28-2020
No.

I do not recommend those file systems.

Your are better off running ext4, a RAID configuration (I run RAID1, but do not depend on it), and doing regular backups on your data based on your risk management model (this is the most critical).

Nothing beats a strong filesystem and a very well thought out backup and recovery plan.

That is my view. YMMV

On the desktop, I run macOS and have a similar strategy. I make full backups often, based on the activity on the system. The more activity and files (and the nature of the files) created, the more frequent the backups.
 

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FILETRAQ(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       FILETRAQ(8)

NAME
filetraq - keep track of changes in config files. SYNOPSIS
filetraq --help filetraq [filelist] [backupdir] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the filetraq command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. FileTraq is a shell script that reads a list of files to watch, runs diff against each file and its backup, and reports any discrepancies, along with keeping a dated backup of the original. It's designed to be run as a cron job. OPTIONS
This command has two possible invocations, one with one option: --help Show summary of options and the default values of the config file and the backup directory. and other with no options, a config file or a config file and the backupdir. The debian version has been modified to read the /etc/default/filetraq configuration file, that lets the administrator change the default values of the config file ( file ), the backup directory ( backupdir ), the diff options used to print the filetraq output ( diffopts , e.g. -p -C 1 or -u ) and the diff order ( difforder , either newold (FileTraq default) or oldnew (traditional Unix default)). SECURITY
FileTraq is not well tested or hardened. It runs as root, but all of its config files should only be accessible by root. No security holes are known at this time, but please be careful. BUGS
Right now, it doesn't take care of its backups very well. The dated backups will accumulate in the backups directory, bounded only by diskspace. It only handles text files, it isn't a Tripwire replacement for use with system binaries. FILES
/etc/filetraq.conf /etc/default/filetraq /var/lib/filetraq SEE ALSO
diff(1), cron(8). AUTHOR
Jeremy Weatherford <xidus@xidus.net> Homepage: http://filetraq.xidus.net/ This manual page was written by Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). June 2001 FILETRAQ(8)
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