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From: Hubert Kario <hka@qbs.com.pl>
To: "Yuri D'Elia" <wavexx@users.sf.net>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: btrfs volume backup
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:44:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201102181744.16718.hka@qbs.com.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110218122424.de09f5e8.wavexx@users.sf.net>

On Friday, February 18, 2011 12:24:24 Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> Is there a way to backup/restore a btrfs volume without losing all th=
e
> associated metadata? (something like xfsdump/restore?)
>=20
> brtfs-image looks somewhat what one would need, except that it clears=
 the
> actual data (for debugging purposes I guess?). I guess it also doesn'=
t
> work on a mounted filesystem, so fixing btrfs-image would be of limit=
ed
> use right now.
>=20
There's nothing like it right now, the only way to backup whole btrfs v=
olume=20
is to use dd.

something like "zfs send" is in the plans though

Regards,
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      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-18 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-18 11:24 btrfs volume backup Yuri D'Elia
2011-02-18 16:44 ` Hubert Kario [this message]

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