BTRFS-RECEIVE(8) Btrfs Manual BTRFS-RECEIVE(8)
NAME
btrfs-receive - receive subvolumes from stdin/file.
SYNOPSIS
btrfs receive [options]
DESCRIPTION
Receives one or more subvolumes that were previously sent with btrfs send. The received
subvolumes are stored into .
btrfs receive will fail with the following case:
1. a receiving subvolume already exists.
2. a previously received subvolume was changed after it was received.
3. default subvolume is changed or you don’t mount btrfs filesystem with fs tree.
After receiving a subvolume, it is immediately set to read only.
Options
-v
Enable verbose debug output. Each occurrence of this option increases the verbose
level more.
-f
By default, btrfs receive uses stdin to receive the subvolumes. Use this option to
specify a file to use instead.
-C|--chroot
Confine the process to using chroot.
-e
Terminate after receiving an in the data stream. Without this option, the
receiver terminates only if an error is recognized or on EOF.
--max-errors
Terminate as soon as N errors happened while processing commands from the send stream.
Default value is 1. A value of 0 means no limit.
-m
The root mount point of the destination fs.
By default the mountpoint is searched in /proc/self/mounts. If you do not have /proc,
eg. in a chroot environment, use this option to tell us where this filesystem is
mounted.
EXIT STATUS
btrfs receive returns a zero exit status if it succeeds. Non zero is returned in case of
failure.
AVAILABILITY
btrfs is part of btrfs-progs. Please refer to the btrfs wiki http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org
for further details.
SEE ALSO
mkfs.btrfs(8), btrfs-send(8)
Btrfs v4.4 01/19/2016 BTRFS-RECEIVE(8)
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