Oracle Solaris ZFS Administration Guide

ProcedureHow to Roll Back Root Pool Snapshots From a Failsafe Boot

This procedure assumes that existing root pool snapshots are available. In the example, they are available on the local system.


# zfs snapshot -r rpool@0804
# zfs list
NAME                        USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rpool                      6.17G  60.8G    98K  /rpool
rpool@0804                     0      -    98K  -
rpool/ROOT                 4.67G  60.8G    21K  /rpool/ROOT
rpool/ROOT@0804                0      -    21K  -
rpool/ROOT/zfsBE           4.67G  60.8G  4.67G  /
rpool/ROOT/zfsBE@0804       398K      -  4.67G  -
rpool/dump                 1.00G  60.8G  1.00G  -
rpool/dump@0804                0      -  1.00G  -
rpool/swap                  517M  61.3G    16K  -
rpool/swap@0804                0      -    16K  -
  1. Shut down the system and boot failsafe mode.


    ok boot -F failsafe
    ROOT/zfsBE was found on rpool.
    Do you wish to have it mounted read-write on /a? [y,n,?] y
    mounting rpool on /a
    
    Starting shell.
  2. Roll back each root pool snapshot.


    # zfs rollback rpool@0804
    # zfs rollback rpool/ROOT@0804
    # zfs rollback rpool/ROOT/zfsBE@0804
    
  3. Reboot to multiuser mode.


    # init 6