[Labs-l] Backups?

[Platonides]

On 19/07/13 14:41, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
> On 07/19/2013 06:58 AM, Finne Boonen wrote:
>> Following the instructions in there I can't access them though.
>> Anbyody knows how it actually works?
>
> It's a bit arcane, and I keep meaning to find some tool to make this
> simpler, but here is a primer:
>
> (Wherever I say "/home" below, this applies equally to "/data/project")
>
> (a) check the contents of /home/.snaplist; it contains the list of
> timestamps of the snapshots that are available at that time.
>
> (b) cd to (or in some other way access) /home/.snapshot/<timestamp>;
> that will automount that snapshot.
>
> The snapshot will unmount itself after some period of no access.
>
> -- Marc

I just made a simple shel script sugar to make them more intuitive:
  https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76313