[zfs-discuss] Re: Reading a ZFS Snapshot
I think it would be handy if a utility could read a full zfs snapshot and restore subsets of files or directories like using something like tar -xf or ufsrestore -i. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
[zfs-discuss] Re: Reading a ZFS Snapshot
I'm not sure what you want that the file system does not already provide. you can use cp to copy files out, or find(1) to find them based on time or any other attribute and then cpio to copy them out. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
[zfs-discuss] Re: Reading a ZFS Snapshot
An example would be if you had a raw snapshot on tape. A single file or subset of files could be restored from it without needing the space to load the full snapshot into a zpool. This would be handy if you have a zpool with 500GB of space and 300GB used. If you had a snapshot that was 250GB and wanted to load it back up to restore a file, you wouldn't have sufficient space. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Reading a ZFS Snapshot
On 18-May-07, at 1:57 PM, William D. Hathaway wrote: An example would be if you had a raw snapshot on tape. Unless I misunderstand ZFS, you can archive the contents of a snapshot, but there's no concept of a 'raw snapshot' divorced from a filesystem. A single file or subset of files could be restored from it without needing the space to load the full snapshot into a zpool. This would be handy if you have a zpool with 500GB of space and 300GB used. If you had a snapshot that was 250GB and wanted to load it back up to restore a file, you wouldn't have sufficient space. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
