Hi, In respect of snapshots :-
a) should the snapshot process it self be modified to allow restoring of individual files via zfs rollback b) should there be a zfs rollfile to selectively restore files from a snapshot c) should there be a zfs purge which would allow file(s) to be removed from zfs including all snapshots Ross wrote: > Very good points Rang, I'm going to add to them with a few of my own. > > It should be possible to restore individual files rather than rolling back > the snapshot and I guess that's what was meant here. I think the terminology > in the original post may not be too clear. > > However, my impression reading this is that this is an application that runs > directly on the machine. If so, we're missing an opportunity here. Solaris > isn't really an end user OS, it's more of a server OS. If you are going to > implement a nice GUI for restoring files from a snapshot, you really want > that to work over a network as well as on the local machine. > > Ironically, if you're a windows user you already have that ability over the > network with Solaris. Run ZFS and Samba and windows users can use > Microsoft's Shadow Copy Client to right-click any file and easily restore it > from a snapshot: > http://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/windows/instructions/shadowcopy.htm > > What's really needed is a way to do that on Solaris and Linux machines over > the network. Integration with Apple's time machine would be great too > (especially as it sounds like they may be making it compatible with ZFS), but > unless somebody high up in Sun speaks to Apple I don't see that happening. > > So you need two UI's: > > - On the server side a simple UI is needed for creating and scheduling > snapshots of the filesystem. Tim Foster's service would be a good starting > point for that: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_for_the_people > > - On the client side a simple UI is needed that allows users to easily see > previous versions of files and folders, and either restore them in place or > copy old versions to a new location. > > And the client side of this would want to be capable of running either > locally or over the network. > > I think you could probably bodge this by virtue of the fact that you can > browse the files in a snapshot. Performance would probably be slow however > and I've no doubt that far better performance could be achieved with hooks > into ZFS (which incidentally would benefit apple if they want to move time > machine to ZFS). > > That kind of thing is way outside my experience however, but it would be good > if somebody at Sun could think about it. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > > -- Regards Russell _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
