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		foobarqux on April 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap I would like to do something similar with BTRFS. How are your snapshots incremental? In BTRFS you would need to specify a base snapshot. What is the restore process? You init a zfs file systems and then zfs receive the backups in chronological order? How are the dependencies between snapshots managed?

vbit on April 4, 2014 [–]

The 'zfs send' command will send an incremental snapshot if you specify '-i snap1 snap2'.

To restore, of course, you'll have to have snap1, and then you can apply the increment.

foobarqux on April 4, 2014 | [–]

That's what I thought. I wanted to know if the OP had some way to manage the dependencies between snapshots.

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