Access files in snapshots?

[JohnD]

Hello,

i am using eve4pve-autosnap (https://github.com/EnterpriseVE/eve4pve-autosnap) to create daily snapshots of my kvm machines.

It works fine but i have no idea how to restore single files from these snapshots.

Any ideas?

My Server are running with Proxmox 4.4 and ZFS Pools.

Best regards and thanks in advance,

John

 

[northe]

Hi John,
suppose you have a snapshot of our drive in raw image format, I would suggest to attach the backup image as a new drive on an existing machine. This machine can be a Live-CD iso-image like SystemRescueCd. So you can mount / access the backup drive and select files to copy.

Juergen

 

[JohnD]

Hi Juergen,

thanks for your reply.
Yeah that should work but i still hope for a better solution.
Starting a VM to access files on my local storage feels strange,

Regards,

John

 

[LnxBil]

ZFS filesystems can be inspected if you set snapdir to visible. For zvols, just clone the snapshot to a new name and present the partitions inside via kpartx to the system and mount the partition somewhere, no VM involved.

 

[JohnD]

Thank you very much.