From: Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how stable are snapshots at the block level?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:01:17 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnjad98d.d1s.stephane.chazelas@spam.is.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 000501cc930b$cae17bc0$60a47340$@nedharvey.com
2011-10-25, 07:46(-04), Edward Ned Harvey:
[...]
> My suggestion to the OP of this thread is to use rsync for now, wait for
> btrfs send, or switch to zfs.
[...]
rsync won't work if you've got snapshot volumes though (unless
you're prepared to have a backup copy thousands of times the
size of the original or have a framework in place to replicate
the snapshots on the backup copy as soon as they are created
(but before they're being written to)).
To backup a btrfs FS with snapshots, the only option seems to
be to copy the block devices for now (or the other trick
mentionned earlier).
--
Stephane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-25 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-23 7:45 how stable are snapshots at the block level? Mathijs Kwik
2011-10-23 14:08 ` Edward Ned Harvey
2011-10-23 15:19 ` Mathijs Kwik
2011-10-24 12:36 ` Stephane CHAZELAS
2011-10-24 13:59 ` Edward Ned Harvey
2011-10-24 15:08 ` Stephane CHAZELAS
2011-10-25 11:46 ` Edward Ned Harvey
2011-10-25 12:01 ` Stephane CHAZELAS [this message]
2011-10-25 12:04 ` Edward Ned Harvey
2011-10-23 16:05 ` Chris Mason
2011-10-23 16:41 ` Mathijs Kwik
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