On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 01:36:39AM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> I'm guessing it involves reflink copies of files from the snapshot
> back to the "original", and then restarting affected services. That's
> about the only other thing that I can think of, but it's got load of
> race conditions in it (albeit difficult to hit in most cases, I
> suspect).
Aaah, right, you can use a script to see the file differences between
two snapshots, and then restore that with reflink if you can truly get a
list of all changed files.
However, that is indeed not atomic at all, even if faster than rsync.
Marc
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