Renaming snapshots

Rename a block device snapshot.

Prerequisites

  • A running IBM Storage Ceph cluster.

  • Root-level access to the node.

Procedure

  1. To rename a snapshot:

    Syntax 

    rbd snap rename POOL_NAME/IMAGE_NAME@ORIGINAL_SNAPSHOT_NAME POOL_NAME/IMAGE_NAME@NEW_SNAPSHOT_NAME

    Example 

    [root@rbd-client ~]# rbd snap rename data/dataset@snap1 data/dataset@snap2

    This renames snap1 snapshot of the dataset image on the data pool to snap2.

  2. Run the rbd help snap rename command to display additional details on renaming snapshots.