Thank you all for your help and in particular you cwillu (sounds
strangely formal!).
Yes, I can now boot into a snapshot but I thought it might be helpful to
explain why I thought otherwise.
I am totally anal about having backups of a current operating systems
and using those for testing I
* [david grant]
BUT I am still left with the problem that caused it for me: how do I
backup (clone?) a btrfs file system with snapshots to another btrfs
partition (apart from using dd). I just hope I don't get scolded again
and told I am not up to it.
I don't think you can conveniently
On 26/11/10 10:11, Oystein Viggen wrote:
What would be really awesome is some sort of btrfs-send program that
handles all this the best way for you, but I don't think that exists
(yet). User friendly tools will undoubtedly appear as btrfs is more
used, but I guess it's still partly in the roll
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:40 AM, david grant d...@david-grant.com wrote:
I am totally anal about having backups of a current operating systems
and using those for testing I thought tat the best way to do this with
btrfs was to rsync the file system to another partition but exclude all
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:32 AM, david grant d...@david-grant.com wrote:
Hugo, you told me how to mount a snapshot. Thank you, that works but you
didn't tell me how to boot into it.
He also gave you the command to set the default subvolume/snapshot
used if you don't provide one: btrfs
Thank you all for your responses to my boot snapshot problem but it
still exists.
.
Hugo, you told me how to mount a snapshot. Thank you, that works but you
didn't tell me how to boot into it.
Anthony, I really hoped that you had provided the answer using grub but
all combinations of your
I thought I would try btrfs on a new installation of f14. yes, I know
its experimental but stable so it seemed to be a good time to try it.
I am not sure if I have missed something out of all my searching but am
I correct in thinking that currently:
I. it is not possible to boot from a
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:19:43AM +1100, david grant wrote:
I thought I would try btrfs on a new installation of f14. yes, I know
its experimental but stable so it seemed to be a good time to try it.
I am not sure if I have missed something out of all my searching but am
I correct in
2010/11/23, david grant d...@david-grant.com:
I thought I would try btrfs on a new installation of f14. yes, I know
its experimental but stable so it seemed to be a good time to try it.
I am not sure if I have missed something out of all my searching but am
I correct in thinking that
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Wenyi Liu qingshen...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/11/23, david grant d...@david-grant.com:
I thought I would try btrfs on a new installation of f14. yes, I know
its experimental but stable so it seemed to be a good time to try it.
I am not sure if I have missed
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