Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover ZFS destroyed dataset?

2009-06-05 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello Mark, Darren, Thank you guys for suggesting "zpool history", upon which we stumbled before receiving your comments. Nonetheless, the history results are posted above. Still no luck trying to dig out the dataset data, so far. As I get it, there are no (recent) backups which is a poor practi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover ZFS destroyed dataset?

2009-06-05 Thread Jim Klimov
"zpool history" has shed a little light. Lots actually. The sub-dataset in question was indeed created, and at the time ludelete was run there are some entries along the lines of "zfs destroy -r pond/zones/zonename". There's no precise details (names, mountpoints) about the destroyed datasets - an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover ZFS destroyed dataset?

2009-06-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jim Klimov wrote: 1) Is it possible to find (with zdb or any other means) whether a specific zfs dataset has ever existed on the importable valid pool? 'zpool history -il' should tell you that, plus it should tell you who deleted them and when. I don't know how to go about recovering a delet

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover ZFS destroyed dataset?

2009-06-05 Thread Mark J Musante
Hi Jim, See if 'zpool history' gives you what you're looking for. Regards, markm ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Recover ZFS destroyed dataset?

2009-06-05 Thread Jim Klimov
I was asked by a coworker about recovering destroyed datasets on ZFS - and whether it is possible at all? As a related question, if a filesystem dataset was recursively destroyed along with all its snapshots, is there some means to at least find some pointers whether it existed at all? I remem