From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de ([81.169.146.220]:25597 "EHLO mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758535AbaDJPv2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:51:28 -0400 Received: from fuchsia.localnet (p57A571D5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.165.113.213]) by smtp.strato.de (RZmta 32.33 DYNA|AUTH) with ESMTPSA id y04923q3AFpQ1hR (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:51:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Michael Schuerig To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Copying a disk containing a btrfs filesystem Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:51:26 +0200 Message-ID: <3414746.Gera7uWrI1@fuchsia> In-Reply-To: References: <4783411.VVGoQz5kVU@fuchsia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 10 April 2014 15:15:02 Duncan wrote: > Meanwhile (2), given the existence of those tested backups, there's > yet another way to accomplish things. Simply restore from the > backups the same way you would if the working copy went down and you > had to restore it, only restore to the new device instead of the old > one. =:^) As the OP, let me insist that I have multiple backups. However and unfortunately, those backups do not contain the snapshots that I'd like to preserve when exchanging the disk. What makes the case complicate is not the question how to preserve and copy the current data; it's how to retain the historic data embodied in snapshots. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:michael@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/