On 2016-12-10 20:42, Markus Binsteiner wrote:
Hi Xin,
thanks. I did not enable autosnap, and I'm pretty sure Debian didn't
do it for me either, as I would have seen the subvolumes created by it
at some stage. Good to know about this feature though, will definitely
use it next time around.
BTRFS itself has no such feature. What Xin is probably thinking of is a
piece of third-party software called 'snapper' that gets installed by
default on at least SUSE and Ubuntu when using BTRFS, but not on Debian
because they make no assumptions about individual use-case (and there
are _lots_ of people (myself included) who absolutely do not want
automatic snapshotting eating up space on our filesystems behind our
back). If you do choose to use snapper, make sure to update the
settings to fit your needs, as the defaults (at least, the defaults
upstream and on SUSE) are absolutely brain-dead and will eat your
filesystem (or at least completely kill it's performance) in a couple of
months on average.
Cheers,
Markus
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Xin Zhou <xin.zhou@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Markus,
Some file system automatically generates snapshot, and create a hidden
folder for recovery,
if the user accidently deletes some files.
It seems btrfs also has a autosnap feature,
so if this option has been enabled before deletion,
or the volume has been mannually generated snapshots, then probably it might
be able to perform fast recover.
Regards,
Xin
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 4:12 PM
From: "Markus Binsteiner" <makkus@xxxxxxxxx>
To: linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: btrfs-find-root duration?
It seems I've accidentally deleted all files in my home directory,
which sits in its own btrfs partition (lvm on luks). Now I'm trying to
find the roots to be able to use btrfs restore later on.
btrfs-find-root seems to be taking ages though. I've run it like so:
btrfs-find-root /dev/mapper/think--big-home -o 5 > roots.txt
After 16 hours, there is still no output, but it's still running
utilizing 100% of one core. Is there any way to gauge how much longer
it'll take? Should there have been output already while it's running?
When I run it without redirecting stdout, I get:
$ btrfs-find-root /dev/mapper/think--big-home -o 5
Superblock doesn't contain generation info for root 5
Superblock doesn't contain the level info for root 5
When I omit the '-o 5', it says:
$ btrfs-find-root /dev/mapper/think--big-home
Superblock thinks the generation is 593818
Superblock thinks the level is 0
Is the latter the way to run it? Did that initially, but that didn't
return any results in a reasonable timeframe either.
The filesystem was created with Debian Jessie, but I'm using Ubuntu (
btrfs-progs v4.7.3 ) to try to restore the files at the moment.
Thanks!
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