Hi
Is it possible to delete a limited set of files from all snapshots without having to delete every snapshot in which those files appear? If the official line is, "No", is there an unapproved way of doing this?
The only way I can think to do it is this:
1) create a new volume
2) copy over the snapshots of the old volume to the new volume one at a time with ndmpcopy. Start with a full copy of the oldest snapshot and then do incremental copies from second oldest to newest of the remaining snapshots.
3) after copying each snapshot, remove the unwanted file from the new volume and create a snapshot on the new volume.
When you are done the new volume will have (essentially) the same set of snapshots, but with the unwanted file deleted.
Probably not worth the trouble.
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support