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BTRFS-RECEIVE(8) Btrfs Manual BTRFS-RECEIVE(8)

NAME

btrfs-receive - receive subvolumes from stdin/file.

SYNOPSIS

btrfs receive [-ve] [-f <infile>] [--max-errors <N>] <mount>

DESCRIPTION

Receives one or more subvolumes that were previously sent with btrfs send. The received subvolumes are stored into <mount>.
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 <infile>
By default, btrfs receive uses stdin to receive the subvolumes. Use this option to specify a file to use instead.
-e
Terminate after receiving an <end cmd> in the data stream. Without this option, the receiver terminates only if an error is recognized or on EOF.
--max-errors <N>
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.

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)
11/22/2014 Btrfs v3.17