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snap restore question

SUMESHADIYAPURATH — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:40:35 GMT

Team

I am experimenting with snap restore. for example,

Secondly

created a folder under /vol/vol_1 called test
created file in test
deleted the file
tried to do a restore with snap restore as snap restore -t file /vol/vol_1/test/filename.txt

Selected the snapshot

Then it comes with the following Error

File does not exist in snapshot

Can't we restore a file from snapshot ? please advise

Suemsh

SANJESHUF — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 05:21:16 GMT

Have you taken a new snapshot or using the same old one

SUMESHADIYAPURATH — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 05:37:08 GMT

Yes. I have taken Sorry. I forgot to include that , the steps are as follows

created a folder under /vol/vol_1 called test
created file in test
Take a snaphot
deleted the file
tried to do a restore with snap restore as snap restore -t file /vol/vol_1/test/filename.txt

Selected the snapshot

Then it comes with the following Error

SANJESHUF — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:17:49 GMT

You cannot use SnapRestore to revert a single file if that file is a directory or a symbolic link, or contains NT streams.

SUMESHADIYAPURATH — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 01:24:45 GMT

Hi Sanjeev / Team

Thanks a lot. i am aware of this but there are no NTFS streams associated with this. I know both Qtrees and directores can not be restored.

Does Snaprestore allow to restore a single file from a directory?

Secondly, Is there a GUI utility for this?

Thanks

Sumesh