From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Ned Harvey Subject: RE: how stable are snapshots at the block level? Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:04:56 -0400 Message-ID: <000801cc930e$53407460$f9c15d20$@nedharvey.com> References: <000101cc918d$3ffb45b0$bff1d110$@nedharvey.com> <000001cc9255$2b34fc70$819ef550$@nedharvey.com> <000501cc930b$cae17bc0$60a47340$@nedharvey.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "'Stephane CHAZELAS'" , Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: > From: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-btrfs- > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Stephane CHAZELAS > > rsync won't work if you've got snapshot volumes though (unless > (etc blah) Please read the OP. He is currently using rsync to backup his snapshots and is not worried about the present state of the filesystem - only the snapshots. He's looking for something faster.