> From: John Abreau [mailto:abre...@gmail.com]
> 
> A limitation of btrfs is that the snapshots are internal to the filesystem. 
> Kind
> of makes it hard to put the snapshots on a separate machine.

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Incremental_Backup


> It occurs to me that I'm thinking of LVM snapshots, and I'm assuming btrfs is 
> a
> filesystem that has LVM-like functionality baked in.

btrfs snapshots are far, far, lightyears better than LVM snapshots.  No need to 
reserve disk space for the snapshot, no snapshot disappearing because the disk 
space reservation was insufficient.  No need to mount the filesystem.  Yes it 
can be read-only, or read-write.  Built in support to send incremental 
differences, and so on.
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