On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 3:33 AM Thomas Schneider <74cmonty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > However, I run into an issue and need to restore various files. > > I thought that I could simply take the files from a snapshot created before. > However, the files required don't exist in any snapshot! > > Therefore I have created a new snapshot manually to verify if the files > will be included, but there's nothing. Snapshots are not recursive on Btrfs. The snapshot will not extend into nested subvolumes. Check to see if you are snapshotting the proper subvolume. # btrfs sub list -to /var/lib # btrfs sub list -to /var/ In some sense these are redundant, I'm not sure if your /var/lib is a subvolume or not. Also please include the exact snapshot command you're making. -- Chris Murphy
