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btrfs volume backup

DISCUSSION Yuri D'Elia 2 participants 2 messages Feb 18, 2011 Btrfs file system

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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.

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Quoted 1 line · On Friday, February 18, 2011 12:24:24 Yuri D'Elia wrote:

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associated metadata? (something like xfsdump/restore?)
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use right now.
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There's nothing like it right now, the only way to backup whole btrfs v= olume=20
is to use dd.

something like "zfs send" is in the plans though

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