Re: Cycle of send/receive for backup/restore is incomplete...

2014-04-24 Thread Robert White
I am, then, quite confused... On 04/23/2014 09:28 PM, Brendan Hide wrote: Replied inline: 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

Cycle of send/receive for backup/restore is incomplete...

2014-04-23 Thread Robert White
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

Re: Cycle of send/receive for backup/restore is incomplete...

2014-04-23 Thread Brendan Hide
Replied inline: 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