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Equivalent of `btrfs send` and `btrfs recv` for bcachefs

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I'm using a setup I consider to be rather fragile and prone to failure involving LUKS, LVM, btrfs, and bcache. I have used btrfs for a long time, and have never experienced any significant issues with it. But, it doesn't support caching, nor does it handle erasure coding (i.e. RAID5 or 6 style redundancy). I consider it prone to failure especially when trying to install a new version of my distribution, since it involves a setup that I suspect is very much an outlier, and not accounted for in any kind of testing for upgrade procedures, or any kind of installation of a new system while preserving most of the data from the old one. I would like to move to bcachefs, but I can't tell whether or not it supports, or intends to support anything like btrfs send and btrfs recv. These two commands are critical to my incremental backup strategy. Does it support anything like this now in November of 2023? Will it ever?
Asked by Omnifarious (1412 rep)
Nov 8, 2023, 07:34 PM
Last activity: Nov 11, 2023, 07:15 PM