snap restore: File does not exist in snapshot

smokey007uk — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:24:54 GMT

Why my snap restore failing ?

have a vfiler running and when i run the following it says file does not exist

napphstc07bv01@NAPPHSTC07B>

napphstc07bv01@NAPPHSTC07B> snap restore -t file /vol/stc07bv01_appcust/test3.txt

WARNING! This will restore a file from a snapshot into the active

filesystem. If the file already exists in the active filesystem,

it will be overwritten with the contents from the snapshot.

Are you sure you want to do this? y

The following snapshots are available for volume stc07bv01_appcust:

date name

------------ ---------

Nov 06 10:25 snap5

Nov 06 08:01 hourly.0

Nov 06 00:01 nightly.0

Nov 05 20:01 hourly.1

Nov 05 16:01 hourly.2

Nov 05 12:01 hourly.3

Nov 05 08:00 hourly.4

Nov 05 00:00 nightly.1

Nov 04 20:00 hourly.5

Oct 30 23:56 testsnap4

Oct 30 23:56 testsnap3

Oct 30 23:33 testsnap2

Oct 30 23:29 testsnap

Oct 28 12:11 testshot

Which snapshot in volume stc07bv01_appcust would you like to revert the file from? snap5

You have selected file /vol/stc07bv01_appcust/test3.txt, snapshot snap5

Proceed with restore? y

snap restore: File does not exist in snapshot.

below is the snaphot i am trying to recover from , and the file does exist

am i missing something simple ?

Re: snap restore: File does not exist in snapshot

georgevj — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:59:11 GMT

Is this happening to only a specific file? or a specific snapshot? a specific volume? Or Single file restore is not happening at all?