From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 6 08:29:59 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB66B106564A for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 08:29:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D2C8FC08 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 08:29:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxn22 with SMTP id 22so3201004yxn.13 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:29:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=VU1DmQTHtx9pHzqxMY1dTcGnKu7zIb2YBUFJNarz5u8=; b=d6eDnQfUoDUy1hYoAmSAmwmZHFGNAeAZTa98ccH+qVdfr48Qyuw1olQPSj753bGX8u KmGKIiocU37TA2wxQR4qqy+4lLOTez673rcSYSYbVwhazXFgE28W9zybnPcaB3nzapGA 4qP7bG5qo0aUBVsuboaZ4QlLGmuHFWPYIqv5A= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.136.41 with SMTP id v29mr22426613yhi.80.1315297798555; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:29:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.110.49 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 01:29:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110905155803.M77497@brightstar.bomgardner.net> References: <20110905130325.M78491@brightstar.bomgardner.net> <0FE472B72B858F5A6EF0FD01@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20110905152046.M44028@brightstar.bomgardner.net> <562EFE312E210988D299516F@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20110905155803.M77497@brightstar.bomgardner.net> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:29:58 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: Gene Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Help Finding ZFS snapshots X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:29:59 -0000 On 5 September 2011 16:58, Gene wrote: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:35:34 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote > > --As of September 5, 2011 10:23:32 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have > > said: > > > > > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:48:22 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote > > >> --As of September 5, 2011 8:13:52 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have > said: > > >> > > >> > Using FreeBSD 8.1, amd64 - I wanted to recover files from a snapshot > of > > >> > usr/home. Everything I've found via googling refers to a link such > as > > >> > "path/zfs/.snapshot" > > >> > > >> --As for the rest, it is mine. > > >> > > >> Try "path/.zfs". ;) > > >> > > >> (Which, on my system, then has a 'snapshot' directory, which holds > > >> all the snapshots.) > > >> > > >> Daniel T. Staal > > >> > > > > > > No such luck. The following: > > > > > > cd / > > > ls -R | grep -i "zfs" > > > > > > finds only 'zfs' directories in the source tree and ports. > > > > > > Other ideas? I know the snapshots exist, I can see 'em with > > > "zfs list -t snapshot". > > > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > > > Don't check if the directory is there first. It isn't. Just 'cd' > > to it, and it will exist. > > > > Daniel T. Staal > > Well I'll be hornswaggled ... Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > as others have posted its hidden. This is for good reason though. Just imagine you backup program trawling your 10 TB array that has 100 historical snapshots. Suddenly you are backing up 1 PB 8(