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by e12e 3028 days ago
> Fortunately, btrfs is really good at backups.

For backing up to another file system? How so? Is there something like "zfs send" or even "xfsdump"?

Honest question - I haven't look that closely at btrfs.

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Yes, "btrfs send" and "receive" exist for that purpose.
Mind that it doesn't work quite so well as ZFS: btrfs send/receive doesn't produce an identical file system as the source. ctimes aren't preserved, some attributes, and depending on mount options, ACLs and xattrs can vanish too.