Hello,
I'm trying to understand how snapshots of Freenas work. I have Freenas 8.0.3 release and I have 4 TB of data on it that I would like to backup with snapshots. My questions are:
1. I know that they are stored locally, but since I just have 1 TB of free space and 4 TB of data, do they have enough space to be stored, or it doesn't care about free space?
2. How are the snapshots stored? Is it an exact copy of my files or they have a different format?
3. If I want to restore just some files, can I restore them individually from snapshots?
Thank you and sorry for my beginner questions.
Roberto
I'm trying to understand how snapshots of Freenas work. I have Freenas 8.0.3 release and I have 4 TB of data on it that I would like to backup with snapshots. My questions are:
1. I know that they are stored locally, but since I just have 1 TB of free space and 4 TB of data, do they have enough space to be stored, or it doesn't care about free space?
2. How are the snapshots stored? Is it an exact copy of my files or they have a different format?
3. If I want to restore just some files, can I restore them individually from snapshots?
Thank you and sorry for my beginner questions.
Roberto