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From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: Konstantinos Skarlatos <k.skarlatos@gmail.com>
Cc: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>,
	Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>,
	linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Significance of high number of mails on this list?
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 06:15:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140822131542.GN3875@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53F6E9B7.1040701@gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 09:56:55AM +0300, Konstantinos Skarlatos wrote:
> I would stay with rsync for a while, because there is always the
> possibility of a bug that corrupts both your primary filesystem and
> your backup one, or send propagating corruption from one filesystem
> to another (Or maybe I am too paranoid, it would be good if we could
> have the opinion of a btrfs developer on this)

btrfs send will not corrupt your primary filesystem, it takes a read
only subvolume and sends its data somewhere else.
At worst, it can (and has in the fact) create incorrect data on the
destination, and I've never seen a single report of it actually
corrupting the destination filesystem (the destination subvolume can
correct incorrect data, but that wouldn't corrupt the existing data on
the destination).

Marc
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-22 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-21  3:22 Significance of high number of mails on this list? Shriramana Sharma
2014-08-21  9:14 ` Duncan
2014-08-21 11:11 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-08-22  3:40   ` Shriramana Sharma
2014-08-22  4:19     ` Marc MERLIN
2014-08-22  6:56     ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2014-08-22  7:35       ` Duncan
2014-08-22  9:58         ` Filipe David Manana
2014-08-22 13:13           ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2014-08-22 17:35           ` Duncan
2014-08-22 18:34         ` Rich Freeman
2014-08-22 13:15       ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
2014-08-22 11:43 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn

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