> If I need to recover a file from 10 days back, I just grab the > 10 day old tarball and restore the file from that. All the remaining > tarballs remain as is. If I do the same with a ZFS snapshot, I'd have > to destroy all the snapshots done between the latest and the 10 day old > one, meaning all changes made since that day is lost.
Nope. It's clear you're misunderstanding something here. To restore something from zfs snapshot, assuming your zfs filesystem is /backupdrive what you do is ... Look in /backupdrive/.zfs/ and you'll see all the previous copies of the filesystem. You can copy files out of there, and don't mess around with destroying anything at all. In fact, even if you did as you described, destroy snapshots, that wouldn't even accomplish what you were trying for anyway. If you destroyed every snapshot, what you have left would be the most recent version of everything. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
