From: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: efficiency of btrfs cow
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:11:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D73B24F.6090806@interlinx.bc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=-bxNwFmp8GZ_Foz=CSP2kUOwqPKAaMFapGuz+@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11-03-06 11:02 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
>
> If you have snapshots anyway, why not :
> - create a snapshot before each backup run
> - use the same directory (e.g. just /backup), no need to "cp" anything
> - add "--inplace" to rsync
Which is exactly what I am doing. There is no "cp" involved in making
the btrfs copies of the existing backup. It's simply "rsync -aAXH ...
--inplace" from the existing backup archive to the new, btrfs archive.
Cheers,
b.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-06 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-06 15:46 efficiency of btrfs cow Brian J. Murrell
2011-03-06 16:02 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-03-06 16:11 ` Brian J. Murrell [this message]
2011-03-06 16:17 ` Calvin Walton
2011-03-06 16:18 ` Brian J. Murrell
2011-03-06 17:22 ` Freddie Cash
2011-03-06 16:06 ` Calvin Walton
2011-03-06 16:17 ` Brian J. Murrell
2011-03-23 12:39 ` Brian J. Murrell
2011-03-23 15:53 ` Chester
2011-03-23 16:19 ` Brian J. Murrell
2011-03-23 17:36 ` Kolja Dummann
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