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<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] List of deleted files via policies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">What you are doing is not wrong, of course create and delete snaps is not free. If you are using mmbackup you could leverage the shadow DB but running the command before the next mmbackup with
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Hello everyone, I am currently looking for the most efficient way to get a list of all deleted files since time T. So far the best I could come to is to create
a snapshot at time T, generate two lists via policies, one for the files inside </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I am currently looking for the most efficient way to get a list of all deleted files since time T.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">So far the best I could come to is to create a snapshot at time T, generate two lists via policies, one for the files inside the .snapshots dir, one for the current filesystem, and compare the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">But I was wondering if is there any smarter way with policies only.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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