On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 01:00:08 -0400 Dave <davestechshop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To reconcile those conflicting goals, the only idea I have come up > with so far is to use btrfs send-receive to perform incremental > backups as described here: > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Incremental_Backup . Another option is to just use the regular rsync to a designated destination subvolume on the backup host, AND snapshot that subvolume on that host from time to time (or on backup completions, if you can synchronize that). rsync --inplace will keep space usage low as it will not reupload entire files in case of changes/additions to them. Yes rsync has to traverse both directory trees to find changes, but that's pretty fast (couple of minutes at most, for a typical root filesystem), especially if you use SSD or SSD caching. -- With respect, Roman -- 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
