On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 18:14:32 +0100, Miguel Negrão wrote: [...] > Now I was testing retrieving a snapshot back from the backup disk to the > original partition: > > If I do > > btrfs subvolume delete @-backupOld > > and then do > > btrfs send > -p /media/miguel/huge/backups/@/@-backupNew /media/miguel/huge/backups/@/@-backupOld | pv | btrfs receive/mnt/backups > > I get an error: > > ERROR: could not find parent subvolume > > Sending via files instead of pipes I can see the error is in btrfs > receive, the btrfs send completes without errors. > > Is it what I'm trying to do not possible ? I'm I using the wrong > syntax ? It would be really handy to be able to do this, to make it easy > to go to an old snapshot without having to transfer it in it's full > size, instead transferring just the diff. What you are trying to do is not possible, it is not supported. Btrfs send/receive can be used to create backups. The use case to restore from backups is not addressed. -- 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
