Yes, I am. On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 09:19:43AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > Currently, I have a nightly cronjob that rsyncs my SSD to my HD on my > laptop. > > Of course, running rsync on an entire FS every night is slow, especially > if I happen to try to use the laptop at the same time. > > Obviously, that's what btrfs send/receive is supposed to fix: > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Design_notes_on_Send/Receive > http://lwn.net/Articles/506244/ > > It's been around for about 1.5 years now, so I was curious if others had > converted to it for backups when indeed the wiki has the CYA 'if you use > for backups, you get what you deserve' :) > > Is it still being worked on, or kind of frozen/good as is? It's almost feature-complete: there's one version bump expected in the stream format, to handle files with holes in. There are probably still awkward bugs in there (awkward in the sense that your backups will fail noisily if you hit one), but for my current usage -- disk to disk on the same system -- it seems to work OK. I'm trying at the moment to hack together a working send/receive backup between two systems. As far as I know, the send/receive will work OK, but I'm having problems with firewalls and ssh tunnels right now. :) 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 --- A cross? Oy vey, have you picked the wrong vampire! ---
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