> 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.
Yup, I figured that out, hence the [SOLVED] addition to the subject. :o) > > 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. Yea, but before I knew about the .zfs/snapshot directory, I thought my only option was to destroy snapshots all the way back to the one I wanted, and then restore from that, hence "resetting" the state to that point in time. Thanks for all your comments. :o) /Thomas -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
