Rolling back the whole file system to a previous snapshot
Siju George
sgeorge.ml at gmail.com
Tue May 18 21:06:22 PDT 2010
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Matthew Dillon
<dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
> :How do I roll back a complete hammer file system to a previous snapshot?
>
> cpdup the desired snapshot onto the live, but you have to use the
> -VV option to force cpdup to ignore mtime and compare the file contents
> (because the snapshot mtimes may not match), and make sure you traverse
> the snapshot softlink and match up the top level directory properly.
>
> cpdup -VV -v <snapshotpath>/. <target>
>
Thanks Matt,
And I guess I will have to separately snapshot the pfses and also
cpdup them separately because the / snapshot does not contain
anything mounted/unmounted as a pfs ?
--Siju
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