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

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tried a git based backup? sounds spot-on as a compromise prior to
applying btrfs tweaks.  snapshotting the git binaries would have the
dedupe characteristics.

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Kai Krakow <hurikhan77+btrfs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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