On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 08:44:15PM +0200, carlo von lynX wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. I thought I had bumped into a totally excentric > use case but really I am making a most average beginner's mistake. I > should have noticed when my thinking was in terms of rsync. btrfs-tune > would be the hack I first thought of, but I realize that is the wimp's > way to go. > > So now I'm trying it the btrfs way. I made a fresh snapshot of the > current state, created a send file (one gig! ;)) from the previous > snapshot. Then I unmounted the source fs and mounted the dest copy. > Unfortunately I cannot 'btrfs receive' since I didn't have read-only > snapshots and making them from existing ones does not yield the same > parent ids. > > Looks like I have to format a new target btrfs and start anew with > a full snapshot send... then at least I get to use a pipe instead of > storing the send on disk. ;) You need one full send to start off the process. After that, you can use the incremental feature. > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:59:47PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote: > > See my other email in this thread. :) > > Didn't get that. Should I? Yes, you should have got it. You were cc'd. It's the one that starts "Thanks for the thought." Hugo. -- Hugo Mills | "What's so bad about being drunk?" hugo@... carfax.org.uk | "You ask a glass of water" http://carfax.org.uk/ | Arthur & Ford PGP: E2AB1DE4 | The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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