From bbed54fbac0073e494e354bea45ff725b0560714 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mohammed Rafi KC Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:05:02 +0530 Subject: doc/snapshot: doc for snapshot clone Change-Id: Ie53e6ab780ab67ffe0c4f6d92fe4c0b779cec2c9 BUG: 1218584 Signed-off-by: Mohammed Rafi KC Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/10187 Reviewed-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal Tested-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal Reviewed-by: Rajesh Joseph Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/10572 --- .../en-US/markdown/admin_managing_snapshots.md | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/admin-guide') 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 \[description \] \[force\]* +*gluster snapshot create \[no-timestamp] \[description \] \[force\]* 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 * + +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 : -- cgit