Restoring a Volume from Volume Snapshot
Describes how to restore a volume from a volume snapshot.
Prerequisites
- You must be a fabric user to restore a volume from the volume snapshot.
About this task
You can restore volume data to a specific point in time with volume snapshots.
Follow the steps given below to restore a volume from a volume snapshot.
Procedure
- Log on to the Data Fabric UI.
- Select the Fabric user option on the Home page.
- Click the Table View icon on the Resources card. In the tabular list of fabrics, click the down arrow for the fabric that contains the volume whose snapshot is to be restored.
- Click the volume name seen under Resource Name.
- Navigate to the Snapshots tab.
- Select the checkbox for the snapshot from which you wish to restore the volume.
- Click the ellipsis seen next to the snapshot to restore from.
- Click the Restore menu option.
- Click Restore on the message box that appears.
Results
The volume is restored from the snapshot. A message informing you about successful restoration of volume is displayed on the Data Fabric UI.
The volume snapshot is preserved indefinitely in the .snapshot
directory on the volume mount path.
Related maprcli Commands
To implement the features described on this page, the
Data Fabric UI relies on the following
maprcli
command. The
command is provided for general reference. For more information, see maprcli Commands in This Guide.