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From: junlion@tormail.org
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Incremental btrfs receive in opposite direction fails
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:42:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ToibV-0001fD-SN@internal.tormail.org> (raw)

Hi everyone!

(I use kernel 3.7.1 and mason/btrfs-progs.git head + the receive
lchown patch [1]. Is there a more up to date btrfs-progs repo for
send/receive enthusiasts?)

What I'm trying is basically:

# Transfer a snapshot of my old system from a backup to the new system
btrfs send /mnt/bak/.snap | btrfs receive /                 # OK

# Merge the old system's files with the new system's files
btrfs subvolume snapshot /.snap /.snap-merge                # OK
mkdir /.snap-merge/.old                                     # OK
mv /.snap-merge/* /.snap-merge/.old                         # OK
cp -a --reflink /* /.snap-merge                             # OK
btrfs subvolume snapshot -r /.snap-merge /.snap-merge-done  # OK

# Incrementally transfer the merged files back to the backup drive
btrfs send -p /.snap /.snap-merge-done | btrfs receive -p /mnt/bak

The last step fails due to the changed direction of the transfer.
"ERROR: could not find parent subvolume". It seems like btrfs receive
cannot find the parent/clone source because it is searching for its UUID
only by looking through the /mnt/bak snapshots' received_uuid fields.

Is there a way for me to directly change the received_uuid of
/mnt/bak/.snap to make it identical to the UUID of /.snap? This looks
like the easiest way if I only need to do it once.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1606091/

             reply	other threads:[~2012-12-28 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-28 22:42 junlion [this message]
2012-12-29 13:00 ` Incremental btrfs receive in opposite direction fails Alex Lyakas
2012-12-30  6:40   ` junlion
2013-01-02 16:57     ` Jan Schmidt
2013-01-02 20:56       ` Jun Lion
     [not found]       ` <20130102205351.GA2242@localhost>
2013-01-02 22:19         ` junlion

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