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Restore a single file from a snapshot with ONTAP

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You can use the volume snapshot restore-file command to restore a single file or LUN from a snapshot. You can restore the file to a different location in the parent read-write volume if you do not want to replace an existing file.

About this task

If you are restoring an existing LUN, a LUN clone is created and backed up in the form of a snapshot. During the restore operation, you can read from and write to the LUN.

Files with streams are restored by default.

Steps

  1. List the snapshots in a volume:

    volume snapshot show -vserver SVM -volume volume

    Learn more about volume snapshot show in the ONTAP command reference.

    The following example shows the snapshots 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 a file from a snapshot:

    volume snapshot restore-file -vserver SVM -volume volume -snapshot snapshot -path file_path -restore-path destination_path

    Learn more about volume snapshot restore-file in the ONTAP command reference.

    The following example restores the file myfile.txt:

    cluster1::> volume snapshot restore-file -vserver vs0 -volume vol1 -snapshot daily.2013-01-25_0010 -path /myfile.txt