On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Brian Tao wrote:
I never used SnapRestore on my filers, but AFAIK before 6.2 youcould only SnapRestore an entire volume. 6.2 adds the ability to do a single-file SnapRestore. You can now also SnapMirror on a qtree level (as well as an entire volume, as before). However, Snapshots are still done at a volume level. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. :)
Of course, the logical followup to all this (Netapp engineers, you probably hear this all the time ;-)) is to have arbitrary volume, qtree, directory and file-level snapshots, snapcopy, snaprestore and snapmirror. Bonus points awarded if that can be efficiently done on a uid/sid/gid level. Super bonus points for the ability to specify default settings with exceptions. e.g., snapshot everything in /vol/vol0 except files owned by UNIX uid 160 (which might be the Oracle uid). DOT 7.0? :)
Actually, what I *really* want is qtree-level snapshots. Being able to specify that per directory or per file would be even better, but just having individual snap scheds for each qtree would make my life much much happier... :)