Here is an simplified excerpt of my backup bash script:
CURRENT_TIME=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M-%S")
# LAST_TIME variable contains the timestamp of the last backup in the same
format as $CURRENT_TIME
btrfs subvolume snapshot -r /mnt/root/@home /mnt/root/@home-
backup-$CURRENT_TIME
sync
# Define space check variables
btrfs quota enable /mnt/root
SUBVOLUME_ID=$(btrfs subvolume list /mnt/root | grep $CURRENT_TIME | awk
'{print $2}')
ABSOLUTE_SIZE=$(btrfs qgroup show /mnt/root | grep "0/$SUBVOLUME_ID" |
awk
'{print $2}')
RELATIVE_SIZE=$(btrfs qgroup show /mnt/root | grep "0/$SUBVOLUME_ID" |
awk
'{print $3}')
FREE_SPACE=$(df -B1 /mnt/backup | tail -1 | awk '{print $4}')
# Now I want to check if there is enough space on /mnt/backup, for sending the
incremental part to /mnt/backup (Let us assume us, that there have not been
made snapshots more recent than @home-backup-$LAST_TIME), so I did the
following in my backup script:
if (( $FREE_SPACE > $RELATIVE_SIZE )); then
btrfs send -p /mnt/root/@home-backup-$LAST_TIME /mnt/root/@home-
backup-$CURRENT_TIME | btrfs receive /mnt/backup
fi
# For the initial bootstrapping I choose
if (( $FREE_SPACE < $ABSOLUTE_SIZE )); then
btrfs send /mnt/root/@home-backup-$CURRENT_TIME | btrfs receive /mnt/backup
fi
Now I have a couple of questions:
1.) does it matter when I enable btrfs quota? I mean even if it is enabled for
the first time in the backup script? Does this have any influence on the values
determined for $ABSOLUTE_SIZE and $RELATIVE_SIZE?
2.) does btrfs implement some way to show free space on its own or do I have
to rely on df?
3.) Is the logic right for the incremental backup space check? I mean the
unshared space should be more or less what is transmittted by btrfs send,
right, since we already have the last snapshot on the backup drive? If this
isn't the right approach, how do I get the size difference of two special
snapshots say @home-backup-$CURRENT_TIME and @home-backup-$LAST_TIME?
4.) Out of curiosity I checked the ABSOLUTE_SIZE values of the sent snapshot
on the backup device too, in theory they should be equal right? But they are
not for some reason they are not equal at all, neither are the RELATIVE_SIZE
values.
Checking the ABSOLUTE_SIZE with du, seems to inidicate that the values on the
backup device seems to be right (2,6 GB), but on the internal drive the value
of $ABSOLUTE_SIZE is 2.0 GB, how can that be?
Of course the RELATIVE_SIZE can very a bit, depending on what snapshots are
residing on the same drive, but let as assume no confounding factors, then
they should be roughly in the same magnitude. And the ABSOLUTE_SIZE variables
should be definitely equal on both the backup drive and the internal harddrive
for the same snapshot.
Where am I wrong?
5.) I understand that btrfs snapshot delete breaks the RELATIVE_SIZE, at least
this is noted in the wiki. Is this still true, and will it be resolved soon?
The wiki also notes "After deleting a subvolume, you must manually delete
the
associated qgroup." How would I do that?
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