Re: help with btrfs send

David Sterba
2012-10-25T15:27:22Z

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 06:23:32PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange
wrote:
> The output of ''btrfs send'' is in binary format. You can
read more about
> what is contained in the data stream in Jonathan Corbet''s posting
at LWN
> here http://lwn.net/Articles/506244/
>
> You''d normally do send/receive something like this:
>
>     btrfs send /backup/start | btrfs receive /destination

We should not try to send the binary data into a terminal anyway, I''m
sending a patch to fix that.

thanks,
david