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List Snapshots taken on a particular pool

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17 January 2008 - 12:23pm
Submitted by: dvijayababu

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Utility for listing pool snapshots taken on a particular OES2 Linux Server.

Prerequisites

  1. Perl must be installed and running on the Linux server where this utility will be used.
  2. NSS must be installed to get the VFS support.
    (The SDK for this API set can be downloaded from http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Virtual_File_Services_for_NetWare.)

Details

This tool is used to list snapshots taken on a particular pool.

It uses Virtual File Services (Originally called Virtual File Services for NetWare) to list Snapshots.

How to use the utility:

From a terminal prompt type: 

Perl listPoolSnap.pl <enter>

Following menu will be displayed:

  1. To list the snapshots taken on particular pool
  2. Exit

A sample output on selecting 1 would be:

<Lists all the pools existing on the machine and prompts Enter the Pool name>

Select Action: 1
Pools Existing:
POOL1
POOL2
Enter the Pool Name: pool1
----------------------------------------------
Snapshots taken on POOL1
----------------------------------------------
SANP2
SNAP3
----------------------------------------------
AttachmentSize
listPoolSnap.pl.txt7.54 KB

Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.



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