On Friday 26 March 2010, Chris Mason wrote: > In general, the end goal is backing up a snapshot the changes from a > point in time to right now. We don't actually need a snapshot to do > this, we just need the generation number and (optionally) a timestamp. I think that backup the difference between two snapshot has a big advantage: the snapshot is a coherent state. For example what if we are doing a backup during a package installation or during a database working ? The risk is to take some files from an old "state" and other files from a new "state"... > > So, we could store these things into a state file that gets fed into the > next backup, but I'd like to keep a command that can print them as well. > > -chris > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- gpg key@ keyserver.linux.it: Goffredo Baroncelli (ghigo) <kreijackATinwind.it> Key fingerprint = 4769 7E51 5293 D36C 814E C054 BF04 F161 3DC5 0512 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
