btrfs-receive(8) ================ NAME ---- btrfs-receive - receive subvolumes from stdin/file. SYNOPSIS -------- *btrfs receive* [-ve] [-f ] 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. -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. EXIT STATUS ----------- *btrfs receive* returns a zero exist 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)