Hey Mike - I can provide a bit of background here. When working on my
snapshot strategy, we knew that reverting single volumes was possible, but
recognized that it may not be for all storage vendors or hypervisors (since
hypervisors essentially have their own snapshot strategy). Additionally,
some hypervisors (such as XenServer, IIRC) do not recommend reverting
individual volumes, although it is possible - they recommend making a new
volume from the snapshot and replacing the old volume with the new one.
The revert button will only show up if the snapshot strategy reports that
it can handle reverting the volume.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Mike Tutkowski <
mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote:
> For those who are interested in this, it appears you have to write a
> SnapshotStrategy implementation and override the canHandle method (this is
> the default implementation, which is provided by the
> XenserverSnapshotStrategy class):
>
> @Override
>
> public StrategyPriority canHandle(Snapshot snapshot, SnapshotOperation
> op) {
>
> if (op == SnapshotOperation.REVERT) {
>
> return StrategyPriority.CANT_HANDLE;
>
> }
>
>
> return StrategyPriority.DEFAULT;
>
> }
>
> That being the case, the revert button won't show up under "standard"
> operation.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Mike Tutkowski <
> mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote:
>
> > Actually, it looks like you can revert a volume to a snapshot, if the
> > underlying storage supports such an operation.
> >
> > I hadn't been explicitly setting this "revertable" field and it appears
> to
> > default to "false" and the GUI then doesn't show the button.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Mike Tutkowski <
> > mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Under the Storage tab in the GUI, we can take a snapshot of a volume
> >> (assuming the underlying storage plug-in supports that operation).
> >>
> >> When I examine the options of the created snapshots, I see the snapshot
> >> can be deleted (as you'd expect), but I don't see a "revert volume to
> >> snapshot" option.
> >>
> >> Can someone tell me what the history is behind that? Is it intentional
> >> that the only way a volume snapshot (really a backup) can be utilized
> is by
> >> creating a template or a volume from it?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
>
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> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com
> o: 303.746.7302
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>
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