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Re:ZFS for Dummies by praseodym on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @10:37AM (#37392277)
Fully agree on using tools such as Restic! The `--exclude-caches` is really helpful in keeping backups small, it makes Restic skip directories with a CACHEDIR.TAG file and that includes Rust compile target directories. Combined with a small exclude list for browser caches and other temporary storage this makes backup deltas way smaller than in the average ZFS setup. (And no, creating a new ZFS filesystem for every cache directory and excluding each of them from snapshots is not really a solution)
Re:ZFS for Dummies by Aerbil313 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @10:51PM (#37400828)
I searched my linux system for CACHEDIR.TAG and found only a handful of them. Also looking at the standard’s website, it seems it’s not adopted.