topic Re: Cifs with snaprestore in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Cifs-with-snaprestore/m-p/6772#M1459 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You can do restores for your CIFS shares without using Snaprestore.</P><P></P><P>You can do restores using snapshots.</P><P></P><P>There are two ways to access your snapshot versions with CIFS.</P><P>You can access the hidden ~snapshot directory or ...</P><P>Snapshot technology looks like shadow copies to windows. If you</P><P>right click on any file or folder and then 'properties' the 'previous versions'</P><P>tab will show up with the snapshot versions.</P><P></P><P>Snaprestore is valuable though. Snaprestore will revert the state of an</P><P>entire volume to how it existed at an earlier time. A scenario you might</P><P>want to use it in - a virus has attacked your filesystem, and you want to</P><P>restore the entire volume.</P><P></P><P>Hope this has been a help.</P><P></P><P>At your service,</P><P></P><P>Eugene Kashpureff</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:17:27 GMT ekashpureff 2010-10-20T15:17:27Z Cifs with snaprestore https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Cifs-with-snaprestore/m-p/6767#M1457 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am looking into consolidating some windows file servers onto a FAS for a customer using cifs. We were looking to include snaprestore to allow for volume / file restores.</P><P>Am I correct in thinking snaprestore is all I need to include for this functionality or do I need to include anything else? If so what will this give me?</P><P>Lastly, anything else I need to consider and best practices etc?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:06:44 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Cifs-with-snaprestore/m-p/6767#M1457 nsitps1976 2025-06-05T07:06:44Z Re: Cifs with snaprestore https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Cifs-with-snaprestore/m-p/6772#M1459 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You can do restores for your CIFS shares without using Snaprestore.</P><P></P><P>You can do restores using snapshots.</P><P></P><P>There are two ways to access your snapshot versions with CIFS.</P><P>You can access the hidden ~snapshot directory or ...</P><P>Snapshot technology looks like shadow copies to windows. If you</P><P>right click on any file or folder and then 'properties' the 'previous versions'</P><P>tab will show up with the snapshot versions.</P><P></P><P>Snaprestore is valuable though. Snaprestore will revert the state of an</P><P>entire volume to how it existed at an earlier time. A scenario you might</P><P>want to use it in - a virus has attacked your filesystem, and you want to</P><P>restore the entire volume.</P><P></P><P>Hope this has been a help.</P><P></P><P>At your service,</P><P></P><P>Eugene Kashpureff</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:17:27 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Cifs-with-snaprestore/m-p/6772#M1459 ekashpureff 2010-10-20T15:17:27Z Re: Cifs with snaprestore https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Cifs-with-snaprestore/m-p/6776#M1460 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Do you have any guides for accessing snaps from cifs volumes?</P><P>I definitely do not need snaprestore for file / folder level restore? (before I quote a customer)</P><P>Thanks for the info</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:03:02 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Cifs-with-snaprestore/m-p/6776#M1460 nsitps1976 2010-10-20T17:03:02Z Re: Cifs with snaprestore https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Cifs-with-snaprestore/m-p/6781#M1461 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Snapshot use with CIFS is covered in the ‘File access Protocols Guide’ portion of&nbsp; the Data ONTAP documentation.</P><P></P><P>You definitely don’t need SnapRestore to recover files and folders.</P><P></P><P>You can read more about what SnapRestore does do in the ‘Data Protection Online Backup and Recovery Guide’ portion of the Data ONTAP documentation.</P><P></P><P>At your service,</P><P></P><P>Eugene Kashpureff</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:20:54 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Cifs-with-snaprestore/m-p/6781#M1461 ekashpureff 2010-10-20T17:20:54Z Re: Cifs with snaprestore https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Cifs-with-snaprestore/m-p/6790#M1462 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks again.. </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:51:36 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Cifs-with-snaprestore/m-p/6790#M1462 nsitps1976 2010-10-21T20:51:36Z