topic restore snapvault to secondary filer? in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/restore-snapvault-to-secondary-filer/m-p/19940#M4678 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Ok, I understand that you can restore a volume from a snapvaulted volume back to the primary. But is it possible to restore snapvaulted snapshots to the secondary? Here's a scenario: Say the data center where my primary was located is destroyed and I need to restore snapvaulted volume data on the secondary to the secondary (i.e. for DR. creating new volumes/qtrees to share out to servers) is this possible? </P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P>snapvault restore - is only available on the primary.</P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P>snap restore - does not seem to like the snapvault format. </P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P></P><P>Eric</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:33:03 GMT charterit 2025-06-05T07:33:03Z restore snapvault to secondary filer? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/restore-snapvault-to-secondary-filer/m-p/19940#M4678 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Ok, I understand that you can restore a volume from a snapvaulted volume back to the primary. But is it possible to restore snapvaulted snapshots to the secondary? Here's a scenario: Say the data center where my primary was located is destroyed and I need to restore snapvaulted volume data on the secondary to the secondary (i.e. for DR. creating new volumes/qtrees to share out to servers) is this possible? </P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P>snapvault restore - is only available on the primary.</P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P>snap restore - does not seem to like the snapvault format. </P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P></P><P>Eric</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:33:03 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/restore-snapvault-to-secondary-filer/m-p/19940#M4678 charterit 2025-06-05T07:33:03Z Re: restore snapvault to secondary filer? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/restore-snapvault-to-secondary-filer/m-p/19945#M4681 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Well after playing around it appears that dat can be restored with "vol copy." Here's what I used...</P><P style="height: 8pt"></P><P>1 - create a new volume.</P><P style="height: 8pt"></P><P>vol create dest_vol 100g aggrX </P><P style="height: 8pt"></P><P>2 - select the snapvault snap that you want to restore from.</P><P style="height: 8pt"></P><P>snap list source_vol</P><P style="height: 8pt"></P><P>3 - offline the destation volume before vol copy.</P><P style="height: 8pt"></P><P>vol offline dest_vol</P><P style="height: 8pt"></P><P>4 - copy data from snapvaulted snap to new dest_vol.</P><P style="height: 8pt"></P><P>vol copy start -s snapvault_snapshot.0 source_vol dest_vol</P><P style="height: 8pt"></P><P>5 - bring the dest_vol back online.</P><P></P><P>vol online dest_vol </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:07:05 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/restore-snapvault-to-secondary-filer/m-p/19945#M4681 charterit 2008-10-30T21:07:05Z