Extracting changed files list from snapshot

Bernard Dugas bernard at dugas-family.org
Tue Dec 16 21:53:06 UTC 2008


Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> Bernard Dugas <bernard at dugas-family.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be
>>able to do efficient backups.
>>
>>Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ?
>>
>>Or if you know any port that already do this :-?
> 
> 
> An easier way would be to generate an mtree(1) description for each
> snapshot, and using that to compare against other snapshots.  You have
> to mount the snapshot for that, though...
> 


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