From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-it0-f48.google.com ([209.85.214.48]:38164 "EHLO mail-it0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752432AbdC0MAr (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:00:47 -0400 Received: by mail-it0-f48.google.com with SMTP id y18so49558760itc.1 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 05:00:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <58D8FEEB.1080100@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:00:43 -0400 From: "J. Hart" Reply-To: jfhart085@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marat Khalili CC: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: backing up a file server with many subvolumes References: <58D72EC4.9020101@gmail.com> <59dccd7e-6cb6-ea66-3150-0ce85472e73a@rqc.ru> In-Reply-To: <59dccd7e-6cb6-ea66-3150-0ce85472e73a@rqc.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: That is a very interesting idea. I'll try some experiments with this. Many Thanks for the assistance....:-) J. Hart On 03/27/2017 01:57 AM, Marat Khalili wrote: > Just some consideration, since I've faced similar but no exactly same > problem: use rsync, but create snapshots on target machine. Blind > rsync will destroy deduplication of your snapshots and take huge > amount of storage, so it's not a solution. But you can rsync --inline > your snapshots in chronological order to some folder and re-take > snapshots of that folder, thus recreating your snapshots structure on > target. Obviously, it can/should be automated. > >