Re: [Dar-support] dar creating corrupted archives

[John G. <jgo...@co...>]

On Tue, Dec 16 2025, Denis Corbin via Dar-support wrote:

> at current point of investigation I would not target at btrfs (as source of the
> backup). Compression and resaving uncompressed are the most probable cause of
> the problem, though this is something that exists for long and used by may
> users... but who knows.

For what it's worth, I've been using dar over btrfs on Debian for years
and have never had a problem.  That includes both backing up btrfs
snapshots and storing archives on btrfs filesystems.

- John