topic Re: Making snapshots browsable in Data Protection

Making snapshots browsable

PatrickR — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:05:42 GMT

Hello,

I have a question about a recovery solution I'm thinking of implementing. I recently implemented an AFF300 (Source) vaulting to a FAS8200 (Destination) for long term storage and backups. Snapshots are configured at the source and replicating to the destination on a schedule, we are keeping 31 days of daily snapshots and 26 weeks of weekly snapshots.

I want to configure the snapshots at the destination to be browseable so the business can restore from the snapshots whenever they want. How can I make the snapshots at the destination browsable?

Re: Making snapshots browsable

Ontapforrum — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 20:08:33 GMT

Hi,

I guess, just like you would access the NAS share on the Prod, same applies for Vault/Mirror.

As long as CIFS is configured on the Vault/Mirror SVM:
1) Just mount the destination 'vault/mirror' Volume into the 'Namespace'
2) Once it is available in the Namespace, you should be able to go to 'shares' and click 'create share'.
3) Enable snapdir-access
::> volume modify -vserver <vserver> -volume <vault_mirror> -snapdir-access true
4) Now, you should be able to go to folder | click 'previous version' and restore the files.

Thanks!

Re: Making snapshots browsable

PatrickR — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 19:49:17 GMT

Thank you. I will try it.