Re: copy complete subvolume/snapshot structure

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> 2015-06-04 16:42 GMT+02:00 Richard Michael <rmichael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi Johan,
[snip]
>> Concerning the backup of subvolumes, Snazzer is frequently mentioned.  (I
>> have not used it myself.)
>>
>> https://github.com/csirac2/snazzer

Just a heads-up: those frequent mentions are entirely down to me
trying to gain some attention in order to get feedback and understand
how people are using btrfs so that I could get the overall shape of
snazzer right in a way that's useful/appealing to btrfs users.

I had started extracting the snazzer-receive command out of snazzer
itself and generalizing it to work with any arbitrary btrfs
filesystem. It seems this functionality is a common requirement and
perhaps it's best released as a separate stand-alone utility so that
folks don't have to worry about adopting any of snazzer's snapshot
layout idiosyncrasies.

There's not too much work left in it but as I haven't been overwhelmed
with feedback so far I've only been spending an hour or two per week
on it. If somebody would genuinely be interested in such a tool I'll
try to get a first version out this weekend :)

The working name is btrfsdup, it works much like snazzer-receive but
only tries to reproduce an entire filesystem without any snapshot
layout assumptions, doesn't try to do any on-the-fly snapshot pruning
and obviously doesn't try to append any snapshot measurement reports
to the target FS.
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