Recommended linux distro for urbackup+btrfs?

ianr · October 20, 2015, 2:55pm

Hi,

I am currently testing UrBackupwith btrfs on CentOS 7 but have been unable to get it to work properly so far with subvolume snapshots (bug report submitted). CentOS seems limited by btrfs-progs being outside of any supported repository, so if you’re using a recent kernel from elrepo then you have to compile btrfs-progs manually.

Can anyone recommend a Linux distro for UrBackup+btrfs that they know works well with a recent kernel?

Kind regards,

Ian

uroni · October 20, 2015, 6:06pm

I’m using Debian unstable. The core system is pretty stable in my experience, but automatic security updates are problematic.

ianr · October 21, 2015, 9:00am

Thanks. I will do some testing on Archlinux instead as it is designed for rolling release. I will also keep the CentOS installation available until that bug report is closed.