From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from magic.merlins.org ([209.81.13.136]:53378 "EHLO mail1.merlins.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756243AbaHVNPp (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:15:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 06:15:42 -0700 From: Marc MERLIN To: Konstantinos Skarlatos Cc: Shriramana Sharma , Martin Steigerwald , linux-btrfs Subject: Re: Significance of high number of mails on this list? Message-ID: <20140822131542.GN3875@merlins.org> References: <2217061.yFV10mnZWq@merkaba> <53F6E9B7.1040701@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <53F6E9B7.1040701@gmail.com> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- "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