On 01/03/2017 08:24 PM, Peter Becker wrote: > All invocations are justified, but not relevant in (offline) backup > and archive scenarios. > > For example you have multiple version of append-only log-files or > append-only db-files (each more then 100GB in size), like this: > >> Snapshot_01_01_2017 > -> file1.log .. 201 GB > >> Snapshot_02_01_2017 > -> file1.log .. 205 GB > >> Snapshot_03_01_2017 > -> file1.log .. 221 GB > > The first 201 GB would be every time the same. > Files a copied at night from windows, linux or bsd systems and > snapshoted after copy. XY problem? Why not use rsync --inplace in combination with btrfs snapshots? Even if the remote does not support rsync and you need to pull the full file first, you could again use rsync locally. -- Hans van Kranenburg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
