Re: Send/Receive Use Case

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this is GOOD news . thanks !

> On Jul 10, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Hugo Mills <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:03:27PM -0400, Vincent Olivier wrote:
>> actually I have another question : is it posssible for a RAID0 fs to “receive” from a “sending” RAID10 ?
> 
>   Yes, definitely. I do my backups from RAID-1 to single. The send
> stream format is based on files, not on the underlying raw storage.
> 
>   Hugo.
> 
>> or do they need to be of the same replication scheme too ?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 27, 2015, at 10:34 AM, Vincent Olivier <vincent@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> ok i’ll go home and rethink my life then ;)
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 27, 2015, at 10:21 AM, Hugo Mills <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 10:04:28AM -0400, Vincent Olivier wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> There are 4 things I’m not sure about re:send/receive.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1) Is it possible to first copy things on a file system using rsync and then use send-receive ? And to subsequently mix rsync and send-receive ? Provided that snapshots are made accordingly.
>>>> 
>>>> Probably. It depends on exctly how you want to use them.
>>>> 
>>>>> 2) Is possible to “send" a snapshot diff to disk and then “receive" it from the said disk into a remote filesystem ? I have two very large and physically distant btrfs filesystems. It would be more economical to juste dump snapshot diffs to disk for transport instead of the network.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, that's perfectly possible.
>>>> 
>>>>> 3) How are “conflicts” handled by send-receive if at all ?
>>>> 
>>>> There are no conflicts possible, due to the requirement of all the
>>>> subvolumes involved in the send/receive process being read-only.
>>>> (Actually, that's not quite true -- you can make a subvolume
>>>> read/write, and then read-only again. In that case, the receive will
>>>> probably fail, leaving the received subvolume in a partially-created
>>>> state).
>>>> 
>>>>> 4) If a file is created, modified and then deleted in-between two
>>>>> snapshots is it ignored by send/receive or does send/receive
>>>>> "re-enacts” the journal exactly ?
>>>> 
>>>> It'll be ignored. The FS doesn't keep track of how it reached a
>>>> particular state -- only what that state is.
>>>> 
>>>> Hugo.
>>>> 
> 
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