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From: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>
To: Sampson Fung <sampsonfung@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: btrfs send/receive in reverse possible?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 09:38:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180216093800.GQ3807@carfax.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACEy+ERPPDqAzZEUtuSTS=QROnfHV-_C5Z4y-EZ303PObX94Qg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:43:54AM +0800, Sampson Fung wrote:
> I have snapshot A on Drive_A.
> I send snapshot A to an empty Drive_B.  Then keep Drive_A as backup.
> I use Drive_B as active.
> I create new snapshot B on Drive_B.
> 
> Can I use btrfs send/receive to send incremental differences back to Drive_A?
> What is the correct way of doing this?

   You can't do it with the existing tools -- it needs a change to the
send stream format. Here's a write-up of what's going on behind the
scenes, and what needs to change:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg44089.html

   Hugo.

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      reply	other threads:[~2018-02-16  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-16  2:43 btrfs send/receive in reverse possible? Sampson Fung
2018-02-16  9:38 ` Hugo Mills [this message]

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