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Restore the contents of a volume from an ONTAP snapshot

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You can recover a volume to an earlier point in time by restoring from a snapshot. You can use System Manager or the volume snapshot restore command to restore the contents of a volume from a snapshot. Learn more about volume snapshot restore in the ONTAP command reference.

About this task

If the volume has SnapMirror relationships, manually replicate all mirror copies of the volume immediately after you restore from a snapshot. Not doing so can result in unusable mirror copies that must be deleted and recreated.

Steps

You can use System Manager or the ONTAP CLI to restore from an earlier snapshot.

System Manager

  1. Click Storage and select a volume.

  2. Under Snapshot copies, click Menu options icon next to the snapshot you want to restore, and select Restore.

CLI

  1. List the snapshots in a volume:

    volume snapshot show -vserver <SVM> -volume <volume>

    The following example shows the snapshot in vol1:

    clus1::> volume snapshot show -vserver vs1 -volume vol1

Vserver Volume Snapshot                State    Size  Total% Used%
------- ------ ---------- ----------- ------   -----  ------ -----
vs1	    vol1   hourly.2013-01-25_0005  valid   224KB     0%    0%
               daily.2013-01-25_0010   valid   92KB      0%    0%
               hourly.2013-01-25_0105  valid   228KB     0%    0%
               hourly.2013-01-25_0205  valid   236KB     0%    0%
               hourly.2013-01-25_0305  valid   244KB     0%    0%
               hourly.2013-01-25_0405  valid   244KB     0%    0%
               hourly.2013-01-25_0505  valid   244KB     0%    0%

7 entries were displayed.

  2. Restore the contents of a volume from a snapshot:

    volume snapshot restore -vserver <SVM> -volume <volume> -snapshot <snapshot>

    The following example restores the contents of vol1:

    cluster1::> volume snapshot restore -vserver vs0 -volume vol1 -snapshot daily.2013-01-25_0010