> A user of a workstation has a home directory /home/john as a subvolume. I > wrote a cron job to make read-only snapshots of it under /home/john/backup > which was fortunate as they just ran a script that did something like > "rm -rf ~". > > Apart from copying dozens of gigs of data back, is there a good way of > recovering it all? Whatever you suggest isn't going to work for this time > (the copy is almost done) but will be useful for next time. > > Should I have put the backups under /backup instead so that I could just > delete the corrupted subvol and make a read-write snapshot of the last good > one?
You can move subvolumes at any time, as if they were regular directories. For example: move the backups to an external location, move what's left of the home to another location out of the way, and make a snapshot to restore. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
