Re: incremental full file backups to smaller mediums possible?

2015-04-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 18. April 2015, 01:03:23 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 16:33 +, Hugo Mills wrote: btrfs sub find-new might be more helpful to you here. That will give you the list of changed files; then just feed that list to your existing bin-packing

Re: incremental full file backups to smaller mediums possible?

2015-04-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 16:33 +, Hugo Mills wrote: btrfs sub find-new might be more helpful to you here. That will give you the list of changed files; then just feed that list to your existing bin-packing algorithm for working out what goes on which disks, and you're done. hmm that

incremental full file backups to smaller mediums possible?

2015-04-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. I wondered whether this is possible in btrfs (or could be implemented),... it's in a way similar to send/receive, but AFAIU not fully solvable with that. What I want to do is making incremental backups of a (btrfs) filesystem to smaller mediums (that is for example: from a big RAID

Re: incremental full file backups to smaller mediums possible?

2015-04-09 Thread Hugo Mills
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 06:14:33PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hey. I wondered whether this is possible in btrfs (or could be implemented),... it's in a way similar to send/receive, but AFAIU not fully solvable with that. What I want to do is making incremental backups of a