On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:44:16PM +0000, Martin wrote: > OK... So for backing up across a local network to a second physical host... > > Is btrfs-send-receive stable enough now to be used? It seems to be OK for me at the moment -- I'm not running it across a network (yet), but I am using it between different filesystems on the same host, using pipes. > How does send-receive compare to using rsync for backups? It's more fiddly to get right, and needs a bit more thought about how to set it up sanely. I have a python library that I use to write my backup scripts. I'll have to write it up one of these days... > Any comments please from those using such things? Works for me, so far, as far as I know. Although we've got recent reports of *something* still going wrong with systemd journal files. No investigation of that yet, though. Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 65E74AC0 from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- In one respect at least, the Martians are a happy people: --- they have no lawyers.
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