Re: Is anyone using btrfs send/receive for backups instead of rsync?

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On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 12:15 -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
+AD4- On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 09:57:40AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
+AD4- +AD4- On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:48:10AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
+AD4- +AD4- +AD4- 
+AD4- +AD4- +AD4- On Dec 30, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Marc MERLIN +ADw-marc+AEA-merlins.org+AD4- wrote:
+AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- 
+AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- If one day, it could at least work on a subvolume level (only sync a
+AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- subvolume), then it would be more useful to me. Maybe later+ICY-
+AD4- +AD4- +AD4- 
+AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Maybe I'm missing something, but btrfs send/receive only work on a subvolume level.
+AD4- +AD4- 
+AD4- +AD4- Never mind, I seem to be the one being dense. I mis-read that you needed
+AD4- +AD4- to create the filesystem with btrfs receive.
+AD4- +AD4- Indeed, it's on a subvolume level, so it's actually fine since it does
+AD4- +AD4- allow over provisionning afterall.
+AD4- 
+AD4- Mmmh, but I just realized that on my laptop, I do boot the btrfs copy
+AD4- (currently done with rsync) from time to time (i.e. emergency boot from
+AD4- the HD the SSD was copied to).
+AD4- If I do that, it'll change the filesystem that was created with btrfs
+AD4- receive and break it, preventing further updates, correct?
+AD4- 
+AD4- If so, can I get around that by making a boot snapshot after each copy
+AD4- and mount that snapshot for emergency boot instead of the main volume?

Yes that will work.

-chris

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