From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from magic.merlins.org ([209.81.13.136]:33619 "EHLO mail1.merlins.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755634Ab3L3R5z (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Dec 2013 12:57:55 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 09:57:40 -0800 From: Marc MERLIN To: Chris Murphy Cc: Btrfs BTRFS , Chris Mason , hugo@carfax.org.uk Subject: Re: Is anyone using btrfs send/receive for backups instead of rsync? Message-ID: <20131230175740.GS19863@merlins.org> References: <20131228171943.GE19863@merlins.org> <20131228173730.GA7234@carfax.org.uk> <20131228180758.GF19863@merlins.org> <20131228182023.GG19863@merlins.org> <1388419531.11341.6.camel@ret.masoncoding.com> <20131230161729.GQ19863@merlins.org> <1388420830.11341.12.camel@ret.masoncoding.com> <20131230171039.GC26054@merlins.org> <95A29B65-87F9-4B73-9715-2BBC10833A64@colorremedies.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <95A29B65-87F9-4B73-9715-2BBC10833A64@colorremedies.com> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:48:10AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > > > If one day, it could at least work on a subvolume level (only sync a > > subvolume), then it would be more useful to me. Maybe later… > > Maybe I'm missing something, but btrfs send/receive only work on a subvolume level. Never mind, I seem to be the one being dense. I mis-read that you needed to create the filesystem with btrfs receive. Indeed, it's on a subvolume level, so it's actually fine since it does allow over provisionning afterall. My bad, sorry :) Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 1024R/763BE901