6.1 HP IBRIX X9000 Network Storage System File System User Guide (TA768-96061, June 2012)

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Users having access to the root of the snapshot directory tree (in this example, /ibfs1/users/)
can navigate the /ibfs1/users/.snapshot directory, view snapshots, and copy all or part
of a snapshot. If necessary, users can copy a snapshot and overlay the present copy to achieve
manual rollback.
NOTE: Access to .snapshot directories is limited to administrators and NFS and CIFS users.
Accessing snapshots using NFS
Access over NFS is similar to local X9000 access except that the mount point will probably be
different. In this example, NFS export /ibfs1/users is mounted as /users1 on an NFS client.
[root@rhel5vm1 ~]# cd /users1/.snapshot
[root@rhel5vm1 .snapshot]# ls
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Accessing snapshots using CIFS
Over CIFS, Windows users can use Explorer to navigate to the .snapshot folder and view files.
In the following example, /ibfs1/users/ is mapped to the Y drive on a Windows system.
Restoring files from snapshots
Users can restore files from snapshots by navigating to the appropriate snapshot directory and
copying the file or files to be restored, assuming they have the appropriate permissions on those
files. If a large number of files need to be restored, you may want to use Run Once remote replication
164 Creating X9000 software snapshots