Re: send snapshot from snapshot incremental

2017-04-12 Thread Jakob Schürz
Am 2017-03-26 um 22:07 schrieb Peter Grandi: > [ ... ] >> BUT if i take a snapshot from the system, and want to transfer >> it to the external HD, i can not set a parent subvolume, >> because there isn't any. > > Questions like this are based on incomplete understanding of > 'send' and 'receive',

Re: send snapshot from snapshot incremental

2017-03-29 Thread Giuseppe Della Bianca
Hi. >Jakob Schürz Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:16:28 -0700 >Thanks for that explanation. >I'm sure, i didn't understand the -c option... and my english is pretty >good enough for the most things I need to know in Linux-things... but >not for this. :-( ]zac[ In one of my scripts I use this method: subv

Re: send snapshot from snapshot incremental

2017-03-29 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Jakob Schürz wrote: > > There is Subvolume A on the send- and the receive-side. > There is also Subvolume AA on the send-side from A. > The parent-ID from send-AA is the ID from A. > The received-ID from A on received-side A is the ID from A. > > To send the AA, i

Re: send snapshot from snapshot incremental

2017-03-29 Thread Henk Slager
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:01 AM, Jakob Schürz wrote: [...] > There is Subvolume A on the send- and the receive-side. > There is also Subvolume AA on the send-side from A. > The parent-ID from send-AA is the ID from A. > The received-ID from A on received-side A is the ID from A. > > To send the A

Re: send snapshot from snapshot incremental

2017-03-28 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 06:40:25PM -0400, J. Hart wrote: > Don't be embarrassed. > I'm a native speaker and still have trouble with most explanations.:-) You should try writing them. ;) Hugo ("darkling"). > > On 03/28/2017 06:01 PM, Jakob Schürz wrote: > >Thanks for that explanati

Re: send snapshot from snapshot incremental

2017-03-28 Thread J. Hart
Don't be embarrassed. I'm a native speaker and still have trouble with most explanations.:-) On 03/28/2017 06:01 PM, Jakob Schürz wrote: Thanks for that explanation. I'm sure, i didn't understand the -c option... and my english is pretty good enough for the most things I need to know in

Re: send snapshot from snapshot incremental

2017-03-28 Thread Jakob Schürz
Thanks for that explanation. I'm sure, i didn't understand the -c option... and my english is pretty good enough for the most things I need to know in Linux-things... but not for this. :-( Am 2017-03-26 um 22:07 schrieb Peter Grandi: > [ ... ] >> BUT if i take a snapshot from the system, and want

Re: send snapshot from snapshot incremental

2017-03-26 Thread Peter Grandi
[ ... ] > BUT if i take a snapshot from the system, and want to transfer > it to the external HD, i can not set a parent subvolume, > because there isn't any. Questions like this are based on incomplete understanding of 'send' and 'receive', and on IRC user "darkling" explained it fairly well: >

Re: send snapshot from snapshot incremental

2017-03-25 Thread Hans van Kranenburg
Hi Jakob, On 03/25/2017 11:37 PM, Jakob Schürz wrote: > Hi there! > > I asked one or two years ago for the ability of btrfs to use btrfs > send|receive with a parent-subvolume from a snapshot from a snapshot. > > The thing is, if i take a snapshot from my system, transfer it with > btrfs send|re

send snapshot from snapshot incremental

2017-03-25 Thread Jakob Schürz
Hi there! I asked one or two years ago for the ability of btrfs to use btrfs send|receive with a parent-subvolume from a snapshot from a snapshot. The thing is, if i take a snapshot from my system, transfer it with btrfs send|receive to an external HD on USB-Port, make some changes to my system,