On 2016-10-18 11:36, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Oct 18 10:05 Michael Hamilton wrote (excerpt):
I want a copy of the root filesystem is for reasonably quick recovery from the loss of the underlying SSD/HD and for recovery from admin mistakes. So this would be for bootable backups to some other media
No special filesystem can help when the underlying SSD/HD or any other crucial hardware breaks.
You need a real backup plus a recovery medium to be able to do bare metal recovery.
Yes, that's what he does, and we do, but the problem we have is that if root is btrfs in the original system we do not have a method to replicate that subvolume structure into another btrfs (external) disk. The only method that occurs to me is installation to the external disk, then erase it, to force yast to create the structure. Or dd the root, then grow partition to destination capacity. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)