Re: Is anyone using btrfs send/receive for backups instead of rsync?

[Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 05:37:30PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > Is it still being worked on, or kind of frozen/good as is?
> 
>    It's almost feature-complete: there's one version bump expected in
> the stream format, to handle files with holes in. There are probably
> still awkward bugs in there (awkward in the sense that your backups
> will fail noisily if you hit one), but for my current usage -- disk to
> disk on the same system -- it seems to work OK.
> 
>    I'm trying at the moment to hack together a working send/receive
> backup between two systems. As far as I know, the send/receive will
> work OK, but I'm having problems with firewalls and ssh tunnels right
> now. :)

Good to know, thanks.

Just curious: what happens if the destination you're syncing the
snapshot diff to, isn't quite like expected?

For instance, if I use an existing rsync destination to start syncing
btrfs snapshots to after that, and one file operation can't be applied
because let's say the destination file it's supposed to be applied to,
isn't there?

Thanks,
Marc
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