[kwlug-disc] question -- how to backup BTRFS to another BTRFS?

[L.D. Paniak]

Yes, send and receive are the terms to look for.

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Incremental_Backup
looks like a good place to start...

On 09/20/2015 10:36 PM, William Park wrote:
> To BTRFS experts,
>
> I'm currently using BTRFS as on-line backup, and I'm getting used to its
> snapshot capability.  Now, I would like to backup it to another BTRFS
> disk and pull it out for off-line backup.  I can't use 'rsync' for this,
> because it doesn't understand BTRFS snapshot and subvolume, and will
> only copy as directories/files.
>
> How do you backup up one BTRFS to another BTRFS?  Manual says something
> about "send" and "receive".  Are those right keywords to search for?


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