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From: Eric Levy <contact@ericlevy.name>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: receive failing for incremental streams
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:52:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0735c9e2d4d6fa246965663a4f0d4f5211a5b8dc.camel@ericlevy.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55ddb05b-04ad-172e-bda7-757db37a37b2@cobb.uk.net>

Thank you for the reply. Please see my questions, below.

On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 23:35 +0000, Graham Cobb wrote:

> There is no such thing as an incremental stream. Send sends all the
> information necessary to create a subvolume. Some of that includes
> instructions to share data in other subvolumes but it is not
> incremental.

Perhaps you would clarify the distinction, as to me an incremental
backup is a minimal set of data needed to recreate the original volume
when combined with the previous capture.

> You don't. Receive will create a new subvolume - which will include
> unchanged data from the initial stage and whatever changes have
> happened. If you want, you can then snapshot that (read-only or
> read-write as you wish) into any position you want in your
> destination
> filesystem.

How should I use the latter stream? From the stream length it is
obvious it does not contain most of the data from the earlier one.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-15 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-15 20:27 receive failing for incremental streams Eric Levy
2021-12-15 23:35 ` Graham Cobb
2021-12-15 23:52   ` Eric Levy [this message]
2021-12-16  0:55     ` Graham Cobb
2021-12-16  1:13       ` Eric Levy
2021-12-16 10:24         ` Graham Cobb
2021-12-16 11:38           ` Hugo Mills
2021-12-18 23:53             ` Eric Levy
2021-12-16  5:36 ` Andrei Borzenkov

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