On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 02:53:50 AM James Harper wrote:
The send/receive functions of btrfs are awesome.
Watch out with 3.17 then, there are early reports that it's broken btrfs send.
:-(
My impression of btrfs send/recv is that the small number of bug reports is due to the small number of people who use that feature not the stability of it. Rsync works well on BTRFS so for my use I've found enough excitement in using a basic filesystem with snapshots and havn't felt the need to try send/recv.
So you would: . snapshot source . rsync to snapshot to backup medium . snapshot backup medium right? I think I could do that too, if send/receive does turn out to be broken. The send is just _so_ much faster it would be a shame not to stick with it. Although if I was backing up to an external location where network bandwidth was my biggest constraint then the performance of rsync would be less of a problem. James