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From: "N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org>
To: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
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Subject: Re: rsync or git backups?
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* Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> [2016-06-01 10:35:06+0200]:
> My fear is that if the master corrupts some file, I could possibly
> loss them if they have also been moved since I will no more be able to
> recognize them on the slaves.

As the other poster mentioned, ZFS snapshots is the way to go.

If you don't have these stored on ZFS filesystems, then check out
rsnapshot as an alternative:

    http://rsnapshot.org/

It's available in ports. You can do ZFS-style
hourly/daily/weekly/monthly snapshots. It uses hard links to save space,
so the overhead is not too high.

Thomas