topic Snaprestore from a volume/s from one host to another in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snaprestore-from-a-volume-s-from-one-host-to-another/m-p/37943#M9005 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is it possible to use snaprestore to restore a volume from one host to another or does it have to be the same host?</P><P>I suspect that I will have to copy the volumes and active filesystem to the new host location before a snaprestore can be done.</P><P>What is the best method of copying these volumes from one host to another? ndmpcopy?&nbsp; We do not have any snapmirror license so that wont work.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:38:17 GMT urbantec92 2025-06-05T06:38:17Z Snaprestore from a volume/s from one host to another https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snaprestore-from-a-volume-s-from-one-host-to-another/m-p/37943#M9005 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is it possible to use snaprestore to restore a volume from one host to another or does it have to be the same host?</P><P>I suspect that I will have to copy the volumes and active filesystem to the new host location before a snaprestore can be done.</P><P>What is the best method of copying these volumes from one host to another? ndmpcopy?&nbsp; We do not have any snapmirror license so that wont work.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:38:17 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snaprestore-from-a-volume-s-from-one-host-to-another/m-p/37943#M9005 urbantec92 2025-06-05T06:38:17Z Re: Snaprestore from a volume/s from one host to another https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snaprestore-from-a-volume-s-from-one-host-to-another/m-p/37947#M9006 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>snap restore always restores data into the same volume.</P><P></P><P>If you do not need to preserve snapshot history, ndmpcopy is fine. Otherwise you could vol copy (which copies everything including snapshots) and then do snap restore on destination.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:20:34 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snaprestore-from-a-volume-s-from-one-host-to-another/m-p/37947#M9006 aborzenkov 2012-01-05T15:20:34Z Re: Snaprestore from a volume/s from one host to another https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snaprestore-from-a-volume-s-from-one-host-to-another/m-p/37956#M9008 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for the fast response....I suspected this would be the case.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:39:18 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snaprestore-from-a-volume-s-from-one-host-to-another/m-p/37956#M9008 urbantec92 2012-01-05T15:39:18Z