On Apr 24, 2014, at 1:08 AM, Robert White wrote:
> So the systems are "the same" but they aren't really the same according to
> this clearly visible symptom.
I don't think of btrfs send/receive as sending/receiving whole subvolumes, but
rather just their contents.
Try btrfs sub show on the
I am, then, quite confused...
On 04/23/2014 09:28 PM, Brendan Hide wrote:
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btrfs doesn't differentiate snapshots and subvolumes. They're the same
first-class citizen. A snapshot is a subvolume that just happens to have
some data (automagically/naturally) deduplicated with another
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On 2014/04/24 12:30 AM, Robert White wrote:
So the backup/restore system described using snapshots is incomplete
because the final restore is a copy operation. As such, the act of
restoring from the backup will require restarting the entire backup
cycle because the copy operati
So the backup/restore system described using snapshots is incomplete
because the final restore is a copy operation. As such, the act of
restoring from the backup will require restarting the entire backup
cycle because the copy operation will scramble the metadata consanguinity.
The real choice
