From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Kario Subject: Re: btrfs volume backup Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:44:16 +0100 Message-ID: <201102181744.16718.hka@qbs.com.pl> References: <20110218122424.de09f5e8.wavexx@users.sf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: "Yuri D'Elia" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110218122424.de09f5e8.wavexx@users.sf.net> List-ID: 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, --=20 Hubert Kario QBS - Quality Business Software 02-656 Warszawa, ul. Ksawer=F3w 30/85 tel. +48 (22) 646-61-51, 646-74-24 www.qbs.com.pl -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html