On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:35:13PM -0400, Scott Dickson wrote:
> A customer asked today about the ability to snapshot and rollback
> individual files. They have an environment where users might generate
> lots of files, but want only a portion of them to be included in a
> snapshot. Moreover, typically when they recover a file, they only want
> one or two of them. The idea of copying them out of a fs snapshot
> wasn't terribly appealing to them since they tend to have pretty large
> files. It would be nice to just reattach that file.
We probably won't extend snapshot/rollback to individual files. However,
it sounds like this RFE would provide a good solution for them:
6343653 want to quickly "copy" a file from a snapshot
--matt
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