On Friday, February 18, 2011 12:24:24 Yuri D''Elia
wrote:> Is there a way to backup/restore a btrfs volume without losing all the
> associated metadata? (something like xfsdump/restore?)
>
> brtfs-image looks somewhat what one would need, except that it clears the
> actual data (for debugging purposes I guess?). I guess it also
doesn''t
> work on a mounted filesystem, so fixing btrfs-image would be of limited
> use right now.
>
There''s nothing like it right now, the only way to backup whole btrfs
volume
is to use dd.
something like "zfs send" is in the plans though
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