Snapshot folders

[jensnetapp]

Hi all

I have just updated to ONTAP 7.3.1.

If I choose to hide the ~snapshot folder on my CIFS share, it is naturally NOT visable to users.

But I seem to remember (before I upgraded from ONTAP 7.3.0) that I still could type the path manually using a "Run" command (for instance \\tknas1\shares\,snapshot, and the snapshot folders would be visable to me, even tough they were hidden,

Can anyone confirm this?

Is it by the way possible to delegate access control to these snapshot-folders for different users?

Best regards

Jens Nielsen

[kris_boeckx]

Hi,

As far as I know, this is not possible. We didn't want that our users could see the ~snapshot folder and made it hidden.

In case of a file restore, we use a script the unhide the ~snapshot, do the restore and hide the ~snapshot again.

The windows command to enable the ~snapshot  is:

rsh.exe <filername> -l <password> vol options <volumename> nosnapdir off

The windows command to enable the ~snapshot  is:

rsh.exe <filername> -l <password> vol options <volumename> nosnapdir on

Concerning the security: no access delegation is possible. Same access is applied to the ~snapshot as it is in the "real" location.

Greetings,

Boeckx Kris

[radek_kubka]

Hi Jens,

The "hiding" of snapshots directory is very poor, indeed.

In fact using just Windows Explorer & typing \~snapshot at the end of the share path will reveal the content of the "hidden" directory.

I am not aware of any hack / workaround which can give any improvement here.

Regards,
Radek

[adamfox]

Kris' suggestion (using the nosnapdir vol option) will make it impossible for anyone to access the snapshots.  The "hide" option does just that..hides it. So you have options either way there.