28 Mar
2002
28 Mar
'02
11:28 p.m.
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Steve Losen wrote:
Does ONTAP link the snapshotted blocks back into the live filesystem or does it just copy the file from the snapshot creating a new file in the live filesystem?
I believe the former is correct (if the operation is analogous to volume SnapRestore). The advantage here is that I can now tell my DBAs they can roll back selected .dbf's, each 2GB in size, in a matter of seconds. How long would it otherwise take you to copy each 2GB file out of snapshots over NFS? 2 minutes? 3 minutes? :)
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