hi there, On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 00:53 -0800, Ross wrote: > It should be possible to restore individual files rather than rolling > back the snapshot and I guess that's what was meant here. I think the > terminology in the original post may not be too clear.
Yep, I agree. > However, my impression reading this is that this is an application > that runs directly on the machine. If so, we're missing an > opportunity here. Solaris isn't really an end user OS, it's more of a > server OS. If you are going to implement a nice GUI for restoring > files from a snapshot, you really want that to work over a network as > well as on the local machine. Definitely - you can do that now over NFS. Here space/timf is a ZFS dataset on my desktop machine, haiiro. On "spoon" a client machine, I browse to haiiro's NFS shares: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /net/haiiro/space/timf/.zfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd snapshot [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -1 total 56 3 backup-2007-09-25-16-21-05/ 3 backup-2007-09-25-16-49-42/ 3 backup-2007-09-25-16-53-37/ 3 backup-2007-09-25-17-35-07/ . . etc. Those are all snapshots taken on the filesystems on haiiro. You can also mkdir inside a remote directories to create snapshots, assuming you've been delegated that permission: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mkdir new [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/zfs list space/[EMAIL PROTECTED] NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT space/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 - 5,18G - > - On the client side a simple UI is needed that allows users to > easily see previous versions of files and folders, and either restore > them in place or copy old versions to a new location. And that's what this is all about - trying to find a cleaner way than http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_on_your_desktop to tie the client and server sides together. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
