On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 09:56:55AM +0300, Konstantinos Skarlatos wrote:
> I would stay with rsync for a while, because there is always the
> possibility of a bug that corrupts both your primary filesystem and
> your backup one, or send propagating corruption from one filesystem
> to another (Or maybe I am too paranoid, it would be good if we could
> have the opinion of a btrfs developer on this)
btrfs send will not corrupt your primary filesystem, it takes a read
only subvolume and sends its data somewhere else.
At worst, it can (and has in the fact) create incorrect data on the
destination, and I've never seen a single report of it actually
corrupting the destination filesystem (the destination subvolume can
correct incorrect data, but that wouldn't corrupt the existing data on
the destination).
Marc
--
"A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R.
Microsoft is to operating systems ....
.... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking
Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 1024R/763BE901
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
