filesystem snapshot timestamp not correct?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Feb 28 00:59:48 PST 2006


On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:55:34AM +0200, Niki Denev wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 February 2006 10:48, you wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:40:36 +0200,
> >
> >  Niki Denev <nike_d at cytexbg.com> wrote:
> > > Any ideas? Probably i'm doing something wrong, but can't see it yet...
> >
> > Tri it.
> >
> > DIR=/.snap
> > nice sh -c "cd $DIR ; rm -rf `date -v-7d +'snapshot-%d-%m-%y'`"
> > ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+
> >  NAKAMURA Takeshi <1yen at sh.rim.or.jp>
> >  I have poor english.
> 
> Thanks, this will work... but i was under the impression that 
> the snapshots will have meaningful timestamps too. 
> At least this is what is mentioned in /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot :
> 
>   2) Run dump on the snapshot. You will get a dump that is
>      consistent with the filesystem as of the timestamp of the
>      snapshot.

It means "as of the time the snapshot was made".

Kris
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