Viewing the Contents of a Snapshot from the Command Line
Describes how to view the contents of the .snapshot
directory from
the CLI.
At the top level of each volume is a directory named .snapshot
containing
all the snapshots for the volume. You can view the directory with hadoop
fs
commands or by mounting the cluster with NFS. To prevent recursion problems,
ls
and hadoop fs -ls
do not show the
.snapshot
directory when you list the contents of the top-level volume
directory. You must navigate explicitly to the .snapshot
directory to view
and list the snapshots for the volume.
Example:
hadoop fs -ls /myvol/.snapshot
Found 1 items
drwxrwxrwx - root root 1 2011-06-01 09:57 /myvol/.snapshot/2011-06-01.09-57-49
In the preceding example, /myvol
is the mount point of the volume for
which the snapshot named 2011-06-01.09-57-49
was created and stored in the
.snapshot
directory.