Re: Questions on incremental backups

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>> And, finally, nobody has mentioned on the possibility of merging
>> multiple snapshots into a single snapshot. Would this be possible, to
>> create a snapshot that contains the most recent version of each file
>> present across all of the snapshots (including files which may be
>> present in only one of the snapshots)?
>
> There is no btrfs functionality for that.  But I'm sure you could do something
> with standard Unix utilities and copying files around.

You could probably use UnionFS or one of the alternatives to get a
merged view of a group of snapshots. You could then copy that merged
view and delete the original snapshots. I'm not sure if there's
anything special you have to do metadata-wise to turn that merged view
into something btrfs would still recognize as a snapshot though.
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