Re: Possible to dedpulicate read-only snapshots for space-efficient backups

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On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:07 (+0200), Kai Krakow wrote:
> I'm using an bash/rsync script[1] to backup my whole system on a nightly 
> basis to an attached USB3 drive into a scratch area, then take a snapshot of 
> this area. I'd like to have these snapshots immutable, so they should be 
> read-only.

Have you considered using btrfs send / receive for that purpose? You would just
save the dedup step.

-Jan
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