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| author | Mohammed Rafi KC <rkavunga@redhat.com> | 2015-04-10 13:05:02 +0530 |
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| committer | Humble Devassy Chirammal <humble.devassy@gmail.com> | 2015-05-05 01:38:45 -0700 |
| commit | e02ac3c28241ff004d6cfbfc03975822146ce5dd (patch) | |
| tree | 3f4a0a6ee4b7669367e504e092b62b999c460755 | |
| parent | c79e03ecd3cd9f2ffad52fad983b32133d8af787 (diff) | |
doc/snapshot: doc for snapshot clone
Change-Id: Ie53e6ab780ab67ffe0c4f6d92fe4c0b779cec2c9
BUG: 1199894
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Rafi KC <rkavunga@redhat.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/10187
Reviewed-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal <humble.devassy@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal <humble.devassy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rajesh Joseph <rjoseph@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_managing_snapshots.md | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_managing_snapshots.md b/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_managing_snapshots.md index b155bba0555..672a8ceb4c6 100644 --- a/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_managing_snapshots.md +++ b/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_managing_snapshots.md @@ -62,18 +62,35 @@ Snapshot Management **Snapshot creation** Syntax : -*gluster snapshot create <snapname\> <volname\(s\)\> \[description <description\>\] \[force\]* +*gluster snapshot create <snapname\> <volname\> \[no-timestamp] \[description <description\>\] \[force\]* Details : Creates a snapshot of a GlusterFS volume. User can provide a snap-name and a description to identify the snap. The description cannot be more than 1024 characters. +Snapshot will be created by appending timestamp with user provided snap name. +User can override this behaviour by giving no-timestamp flag. NOTE : To be able to take a snapshot, volume should be present and it should be in started state. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +**Snapshot clone** + +Syntax : +*gluster snapshot clone <clonename\> <snapname\>* + +Details : +Creates a clone of a snapshot. Upon successful completion, a new GlusterFS +volume will be created from snapshot. The clone will be a space efficient clone, +i.e, the snapshot and the clone will share the backend disk. + +NOTE : To be able to take a clone from snapshot, snapshot should be present +and it should be in activated state. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- + **Restoring snaps** Syntax : |