Help Finding ZFS snapshots

Gene fbsd at brightstar.bomgardner.net
Mon Sep 5 15:58:34 UTC 2011


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!




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