On Saturday 2016-12-31 21:29, Richard Brown wrote:
On 31 December 2016 at 21:14, Carlos E. R.
wrote: Another issue: there is no known way to rebuild the btrfs root structure needed for any version of openSUSE from scratch, in order to restore from backup media. or clone the installation. One needs to install again.
Sure there is and no you don't need to reinstall again
dd works fine with btrfs, but if you'd prefer to use native tools
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Restore
Or if you want to rebuilt the btrfs root structure without any data
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/btrfs-image
Or maybe you'd be interested in the btrfs send/recieve for something more incremental?
all these tools did not work in my case, on the corrupted btrfs volume. some btrfs tools even just dumped core (version from Leap 42.2 install image). I think the yast partitioner/installer should have a better btrfs implementation (CoW option? skinny extents? RAID? ...) or just an option to add standard subvolumes to an existing or manually created btrfs volume would be helpful. P.S.: This way Incremental Backup sounds interesting, a good implementation with dar, or something else would be interesting. I currently use dar for incremental backups, very time consuming, files being changed at time of backup sometimes fail to backup, problems if cdate goes backwards... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org