On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 4:35 PM Philip Rhoades via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> [...] > What I don't understand is that when creating the snapshots originally, > the time to create them is almost zero but when using btrfs send to the > other partition the times are _much_ longer. I guess it makes sense > that the first send of the first snapshot is slow, but why are the > second and third sends not much better? > Creating a snapshot only maniplates meta-data to mark blocks that should be preserved (so they can be used if you need to roll back to a snapshot). > My previous script using rsync for incremental backups of a file system > / dir is faster - I can check the times if anyone is interested . . > > rsync should be faster: send has to use the metadata to resconstruct the files while rsync uses the current filesystem which is highly optimimized to take advantage of caches and parallel operations. -- George N. White III
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