Hello, On Oct 18 10:05 Michael Hamilton wrote (excerpt):
I want a copy of the root filesystem is for reasonably quick recovery from the loss of the underlying SSD/HD and for recovery from admin mistakes. So this would be for bootable backups to some other media
No special filesystem can help when the underlying SSD/HD or any other crucial hardware breaks. You need a real backup plus a recovery medium to be able to do bare metal recovery. See https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Disaster_Recovery Regarding backup on the recovery medium see http://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/getting-started As a generic starting point have a look at https://en.opensuse.org/images/8/85/Essentials_about_disaster_recovery_with_... Regarding "reasonably quick recovery": Disaster recovery with Relax-and-Recover is very fast. Basically the only thing that usually needs time is to restore the backup. On my SLE12 tests systems with only a few GB of files and fast network access to the backup.tar.gz (via NFS) the plain "rear recover" is done in about one or two minutes. But disaster recovery with Relax-and-Recover is not something for unexperienced end-users, read https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Disaster_Recovery Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org