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Clone a Volume from a Snapshot?

General — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 23:24:29 GMT

Hello All,

Quick question. How do you clone a Volume from a Snapshot?

I know the command for cloning a LUN from a snapshot but is there not a way to clone an entire Volume by using a Snapshot.

The problem that throws me off is the "LUN" part, since I'm not trying to create a clone of a LUN. I want a clone of the entire Volume by way of using a Snapshot.

Can this be done?

volume snapshot create -vserver vs1 -volume vol1 -snapshot vol1_snapshot

file clone create -vserver vs1 -volume vol1 -source-path lun1 -snapshot-name vol1_snapshot -destination-path lun1_snap_clone

Re: Clone a Volume from a Snapshot?

aborzenkov — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 02:32:40 GMT

Use “volume clone”.

Re: Clone a Volume from a Snapshot?

liu — Tue, 06 May 2025 08:16:01 GMT

Use volume clone create

volume clone create

For example

cluster1::> volume clone create -vserver vs1 -flexclone fc_vol_1 -parent-volume fv2 -junction-active true -foreground true -comment "Testing FlexClone creation"
cluster1::> volume clone show fc_vol_1 -vserver vs1