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Moving subvolumes across disks

DISCUSSION Michael Welsh Duggan 1 participant 1 message Jan 12, 2014 Btrfs file system

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I currently have a disk with a btrfs volume dedicated to backups. All of these backups are snapshotted volumes that were sent to this disk via btrfs send/receive). Moreover the disk has had deduplication processes run on it a time or two.

I wish to re-format this disk using a larger metadata block (so it can better handle large numbers of snapshots). So I want to move all existing data to another disk. Is there a way to copy/move a volume with all subvolumes to another disk, maintaining shared extents (from deduplication)?

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