Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:30:10 -0400 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: "Ultima" <ultima1252@gmail.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: snapshots contain no data. Message-ID: <802b703b400e1abc4f9fb2845acb23e0.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <CANJ8om4_MnhLwJvY8v2fw1z3Mz6Q9zWki6quB8JLOSzUKKPh=Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <809ce5c30945a6659ef1ab5ea592fb80.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <CANJ8om4_MnhLwJvY8v2fw1z3Mz6Q9zWki6quB8JLOSzUKKPh=Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, October 23, 2017 15:19, Ultima wrote:
> Hello James,
>
> I'm not really sure what your expecting to see with ls, but I'll give
> you some tips and hopefully it will help.
The examples I could find respecting searching for a file in a
snapshot never seemed to manage to note that one first must mount a
snapshot before doing anything with it; and I somehow overlooked that
significant detail in my other readings.
>
> These snapshots can be mounted like so:
> "mount -t zfs zroot@SNAPSHOT /mnt" replace SNAPSHOT with a actual
> snapshot, in this case something like 2017-10-10_12.10.00--14d should
> work.
>
mount -t zfs zroot@2017-10-10_11.10.00--14d /mnt/snapshot
mount: zroot@2017-10-10_11.10.00--14d: Device busy
What does this mean, besides the patently obvious, and how it is
resolved? What I am trying to do is retrieve one file from the
initial snapshot.
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