Re: protecting snapshots

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On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 7:54 AM Jan Fajerski <jfajerski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
> while discussing the snap-schedule module, a feature request for protecting
> snapshots against deletion came up.

Where/when did this discussion happen? +Venky/+Daniel have been
planning work on this and should be in the loop.

> This is partly tied to the scheduled
> pruning, when a user wants to protect an individual snapshot from being pruned.
> It could however also be used to protect individual snapshots from being
> accidentally deleted.

Another possibility would be to have a snapshot copy operation. Then
the snapshot with a generated schedule based name could be saved by
the user. I don't know yet how technically difficult that would be.

> Is a virtual xattr on a virtual directory a bad idea?

No, it's fine.

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