topic Re: How to set up self- restore from SnapVault backup in ONTAP Discussions

How to set up self- restore from SnapVault backup

heightsnj — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:25:03 GMT

If I want users to restore from the local Snapshot, the user can just cd to volume "xyz" .snapshot directory and copy data from it. This can be done by users themself.

What if the user wants to restore data from SV on the remote filer, I need to export the volume "xyz_sv" on the secondary to the same client, and then mount "xyz_sv", and then copy data under "xyz_sv/.snapshot" to xyz on the host. Am I correct? In essence, the volume on the secondary has to be different than primary one

Appreicate your input!

Re: How to set up self- restore from SnapVault backup

scottgelb — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 05:15:32 GMT

You need a LIF and an export-policy (for NFS) or CIFS share (for cifs and joined the domain) then access the vaulted volume from the target export.

Re: How to set up self- restore from SnapVault backup

heightsnj — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:19:00 GMT

Understood. In addition to what you said, and then plus what I said will be the answer to my question. Correct?

Re: How to set up self- restore from SnapVault backup

scottgelb — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:40:42 GMT

correct. 2 separate mount points. You can copy from snapvault/.snapshot back to the source volume.

Re: How to set up self- restore from SnapVault backup

richard_payne — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 18:23:33 GMT

Assuming this is for NFS I would suggest you use the automounter and then we've started placing a symlink in the primary volume (qtree in our case) that points to the autofs mount point of the snapvault volume. As long as you follow a standard naming convention on both sides of course..

--rdp