Re: btrfs send/receive vs rsync

2018-06-30 Thread Duncan
Marc MERLIN posted on Fri, 29 Jun 2018 09:24:20 -0700 as excerpted: >> If instead of using a single BTRFS filesystem you used LVM volumes >> (maybe with Thin provisioning and monitoring of the volume group free >> space) for each of your servers to backup with one BTRFS filesystem per >> volume yo

Re: btrfs send/receive vs rsync

2018-06-29 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Lionel Bouton wrote: > Hi, > > On 29/06/2018 09:22, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:09:54PM +0500, Roman Mamedov wrote: > >> On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 23:59:03 -0700 > >> Marc MERLIN wrote: > >> > >>> I don't waste a week recreating the many b

Re: btrfs-send-receive vs rsync for (incremental/full) backups

2013-12-13 Thread Hugo Mills
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 02:30:26PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:44:16PM +, Martin wrote: > >> OK... So for backing up across a local network to a second physical host... > >> > >> Is btrfs-send-receive stable

Re: btrfs-send-receive vs rsync for (incremental/full) backups

2013-12-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 13, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:44:16PM +, Martin wrote: >> OK... So for backing up across a local network to a second physical host... >> >> Is btrfs-send-receive stable enough now to be used? > > It seems to be OK for me at the moment -- I'm

Re: btrfs-send-receive vs rsync for (incremental/full) backups

2013-12-13 Thread Hugo Mills
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:44:16PM +, Martin wrote: > OK... So for backing up across a local network to a second physical host... > > Is btrfs-send-receive stable enough now to be used? It seems to be OK for me at the moment -- I'm not running it across a network (yet), but I am using it b

btrfs-send-receive vs rsync for (incremental/full) backups

2013-12-13 Thread Martin
OK... So for backing up across a local network to a second physical host... Is btrfs-send-receive stable enough now to be used? How does send-receive compare to using rsync for backups? Any comments please from those using such things? Thanks, Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the