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

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Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:

>> 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.

This is planned for later. In the first step I want to stay as file system 
agnostic for the source as possible. But I've put it on my todo list in the 
gist.

Regards,
Kai

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