On 04/22/98 09:37:47 you wrote:

In message 199804221400.KAA21557@prospero.dma.isg.mot.com, Christoph Doerbeck writes:

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Solution 1: use 'find' and 'cpio' and transfer all the data back. this would appear to require 2x current capacity of the filer to replicate all data out of snapshot. if you're using >50%, this method would fail.

If the files in question have been removed, rather than modified, this will only copy the files that have been removed. On other files, it will either refuse to copy because it thinks its copying a file onto itself. It will complain the whole while (slowing things down), but it will only add the space consumed by the deleted files. At least that's what happened when I tried it in my home directory.

An interesting observation. One example where having the snapshot FSID the same as the filesystem FSID is actually an advantage. :)

Bruce