Hi Daniel, On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 08:57:35 +0100 Daniel Bilik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, George. > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 21:16:50 -0500 > George <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am currently struggling to figure out how to make and use > > snapshots. I saw the command: > > hammer2 snapshot /home/mydir /snaps/mydir.s01 > > which I thought would create a snapshot under /snaps/mydir.01 but > > that's not what happens... > > No, first parameter to "snapshot" command is a path to filesystem you > want to snapshot, but second parameter is just a label you want to > assign it. See hammer2(8) for details. > > So you create a snapshot for example like this: > > hammer2 snapshot /home/mydir mydir_test_snapshot > > > how does one view the contents of a snapshot? How can I list them? > > Find a snapshot of your interest with "hammer2 pfs-list" and then just > mount it somewhere using the label: > > mount_hammer2 <hammer2-block-device>@<label> /somewhere So the block device is the one for the original PFS I created the snapshot from, say I have my disk at /dev/serno/GFSA.s1a I would just add the snapshot with the above syntax and mount it anywhere in the tree: mount_hammer2 /dev/serno/GFSA.s1a@<label> /snap01_usr_lib Will give it a shot. Thanks very much! George > > -- > Daniel Bilik
