From: webmaster@zedlx.com
To: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature requests: online backup - defrag - change RAID level
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:41:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190910184122.Horde.3fBVb1d5mYyRnhiwZGiCS_M@server53.web-hosting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <610e9567-2f17-c7c3-01aa-0e1215be44d0@gmail.com>
Quoting Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>:
> 09.09.2019 20:11, webmaster@zedlx.com пишет:
> ...
>>>
>>> Forgot to mention this part.
>>>
>>> If your primary objective is to migrate your data to another device
>>> online (mounted, without unmount any of the fs).
>>
>> This is not the primary objective. The primary objective is to produce a
>> full, online, easy-to-use, robust backup. But let's say we need to do
>> migration...
>>>
>>> Then I could say, you can still add a new device, then remove the old
>>> device to do that.
>>
>> If the source filesystem already uses RAID1, then, yes, you could do it,
>
> You could do it with any profile.
>
>> but it would be too slow, it would need a lot of user intervention, so
>> many commands typed, so many ways to do it wrong, to make a mistake.
>>
>
> It requires exactly two commands - one to add new device, another to
> remove old device.
>
Yes, sorry I got a bit confused.
The point is that migration is not the objective. The objective could,
possibly, be restated as: make another copy of the filesystem.
Migration is something different.
>> Too cumbersome. Too wastefull of time and resources.
>>
>
> Do you mean your imaginary full backup will not read full filesystem?
> Otherwise how can it take less time and resources?
My imaginary full backup needs to read and write the entire filesystem.
It can't take less than that.
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2019-09-09 2:55 Feature requests: online backup - defrag - change RAID level zedlryqc
2019-09-09 3:51 ` Qu Wenruo
2019-09-09 11:25 ` zedlryqc
2019-09-09 12:18 ` Qu Wenruo
2019-09-09 12:28 ` Qu Wenruo
2019-09-09 17:11 ` webmaster
2019-09-10 17:39 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2019-09-10 22:41 ` webmaster [this message]
2019-09-09 15:29 ` Graham Cobb
2019-09-09 17:24 ` Remi Gauvin
2019-09-09 19:26 ` webmaster
2019-09-10 19:22 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-09-10 23:32 ` webmaster
2019-09-11 12:02 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-09-11 16:26 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-11 17:20 ` webmaster
2019-09-11 18:19 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-09-11 20:01 ` webmaster
2019-09-11 21:42 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-13 1:33 ` General Zed
2019-09-11 21:37 ` webmaster
2019-09-12 11:31 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-09-12 19:18 ` webmaster
2019-09-12 19:44 ` Chris Murphy
2019-09-12 21:34 ` General Zed
2019-09-12 22:28 ` Chris Murphy
2019-09-12 22:57 ` General Zed
2019-09-12 23:54 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-13 0:26 ` General Zed
2019-09-13 3:12 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-13 5:05 ` General Zed
2019-09-14 0:56 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-14 1:50 ` General Zed
2019-09-14 4:42 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-14 4:53 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-15 17:54 ` General Zed
2019-09-16 22:51 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-17 1:03 ` General Zed
2019-09-17 1:34 ` General Zed
2019-09-17 1:44 ` Chris Murphy
2019-09-17 4:55 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-17 4:19 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-17 3:10 ` General Zed
2019-09-17 4:05 ` General Zed
2019-09-14 1:56 ` General Zed
2019-09-13 5:22 ` General Zed
2019-09-13 6:16 ` General Zed
2019-09-13 6:58 ` General Zed
2019-09-13 9:25 ` General Zed
2019-09-13 17:02 ` General Zed
2019-09-14 0:59 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-14 1:28 ` General Zed
2019-09-14 4:28 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-15 18:05 ` General Zed
2019-09-16 23:05 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-13 7:51 ` General Zed
2019-09-13 11:04 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-09-13 20:43 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-14 0:20 ` General Zed
2019-09-14 18:29 ` Chris Murphy
2019-09-14 23:39 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-13 11:09 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-09-13 17:20 ` General Zed
2019-09-13 18:20 ` General Zed
2019-09-12 19:54 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-09-12 22:21 ` General Zed
2019-09-13 11:53 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-09-13 16:54 ` General Zed
2019-09-13 18:29 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-09-13 19:40 ` General Zed
2019-09-14 15:10 ` Jukka Larja
2019-09-12 22:47 ` General Zed
2019-09-11 21:37 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-11 23:21 ` webmaster
2019-09-12 0:10 ` Remi Gauvin
2019-09-12 3:05 ` webmaster
2019-09-12 3:30 ` Remi Gauvin
2019-09-12 3:33 ` Remi Gauvin
2019-09-12 5:19 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-12 21:23 ` General Zed
2019-09-14 4:12 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-16 11:42 ` General Zed
2019-09-17 0:49 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-17 2:30 ` General Zed
2019-09-17 5:30 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-17 10:07 ` General Zed
2019-09-17 23:40 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-18 4:37 ` General Zed
2019-09-18 18:00 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-09-10 23:58 ` webmaster
2019-09-09 23:24 ` Qu Wenruo
2019-09-09 23:25 ` webmaster
2019-09-09 16:38 ` webmaster
2019-09-09 23:44 ` Qu Wenruo
2019-09-10 0:00 ` Chris Murphy
2019-09-10 0:51 ` Qu Wenruo
2019-09-10 0:06 ` webmaster
2019-09-10 0:48 ` Qu Wenruo
2019-09-10 1:24 ` webmaster
2019-09-10 1:48 ` Qu Wenruo
2019-09-10 3:32 ` webmaster
2019-09-10 14:14 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-09-10 22:35 ` webmaster
2019-09-11 6:40 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-09-10 22:48 ` webmaster
2019-09-10 23:14 ` webmaster
2019-09-11 0:26 ` webmaster
2019-09-11 0:36 ` webmaster
2019-09-11 1:00 ` webmaster
2019-09-10 11:12 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-09-09 3:12 webmaster
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