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)



Btrfs v3.17                                 11/22/2014                           BTRFS-RECEIVE(8)