RE: btrfs-progs - failed btrfs replace on RAID1 seems to have left things in a wrong state

2017-12-01 Thread Eric Mesa
with knowledge rather than just a list of instructions. So thanks for that as well. -- Eric Mesa http://www.ericmesa.com -- 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

btrfs-progs - failed btrfs replace on RAID1 seems to have left things in a wrong state

2017-11-30 Thread Eric Mesa
both part of and not part of the RAID1 - does that need to be reported as a bug? -- Eric Mesa http://www.ericmesa.com -- 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.

Re: Understanding btrfs and backups

2014-03-07 Thread Eric Mesa
Duncan 1i5t5.duncan at cox.net writes: *But*, btrfs snapshots by themselves remain on the existing btrfs filesystem, and thus are subject to many of the same risks as the filesystem itself. As you mentioned raid is redundancy not backup, snapshots aren't backup either; snapshots are

Understanding btrfs and backups

2014-03-06 Thread Eric Mesa
that such a think wouldn't quickly fill a hard drive? Thanks for reading my questions, I appreciate the help. When all is said and done I'd certainly like to publish a how-to from my point of undertanding. -- Eric Mesa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs

Re: Understanding btrfs and backups

2014-03-06 Thread Eric Mesa
Brian Wong wrote: a snapshot is different than a backup, with a snapshot you're still accessing a read-only version of the live filesystem. i don't know the specifics of btrfs but if you take daily snapshots, you should be able to restore a single file from the five-days-ago snapshot by browsing

Re: Understanding btrfs and backups

2014-03-06 Thread Eric Mesa
Brian Wong wrote: a snapshot is different than a backup, with a snapshot you're still accessing a read-only version of the live filesystem. i don't know the specifics of btrfs but if you take daily snapshots, you should be able to restore a single file from the five-days-ago snapshot by browsing