George,

On 2024-06-09 20:36, George N. White III wrote:
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).


Ah - right.


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.


Right - that all makes sense - thanks!

P.
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