Netapp Snapshot Management Cheat Sheet Print E-mail
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Friday, 19 December 2008 10:55

This article explains the different commands related to Netapp Snapshot Management.

 

Creating a test volume of 10gb to perform snapshot related operations

geekyfacts-filer > vol  create testvol aggr 10g
Creation of volume 'testvol' with size 10g on containing aggregate

geekyfacts-filer >   df -h testvol
Filesystem               total       used      avail capacity  Mounted on
/vol/testvol/           8192MB     1420KB     8190MB       0%  /vol/testvol/
/vol/testvol/.snapshot     2048MB        0MB     2048MB       0%  /vol/testvol/.snapshot
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Snapshot Create


geekyfacts-filer > snap list testvol
Volume testvol
working...

No snapshots exist.

geekyfacts-filer >   snap create testvol testsnap
creating snapshot...

geekyfacts-filer >   snap list testvol
Volume testvol
working...

  %/used       %/total  date          name
----------  ----------  ------------  --------
  0% ( 0%)    0% ( 0%)  Dec 19 01:02  testsnap
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Snapshot Rename



geekyfacts-filer >   snap rename testvol testsnap snaptest

geekyfacts-filer >   snap list testvol
Volume testvol
working...

  %/used       %/total  date          name
----------  ----------  ------------  --------
  3% ( 3%)    0% ( 0%)  Dec 19 01:02  snaptest
geekyfacts-filer >


Snapshot Delete



geekyfacts-filer >    snap delete testvol snaptest
deleting snapshot...

geekyfacts-filer >   snap list testvol
Volume testvol
working...

No snapshots exist.
geekyfacts-filer >

 

Snap Scheduling



Scheduling automatic snapshot to keep 2 weekly, 2 daily, 8 hourly(taken at hours 8,12,16,20) online.

 

geekyfacts-filer >   snap sched testvol 2 2 8@8,12,16,20

geekyfacts-filer >   snap sched testvol
Volume testvol: 2 2
8@8,12,16,20
geekyfacts-filer >


Snap Space Reservation


Default snapshot space reserve is 20% of the volume size

 

geekyfacts-filer >   snap reserve  testvol
Volume testvol: current snapshot reserve is 20% or 2097152 k-bytes.

 

geekyfacts-filer >   df -h testvol
Filesystem               total       used      avail capacity  Mounted on
/vol/testvol/           8192MB     1796KB     8190MB       0%  /vol/testvol/
/vol/testvol/.snapshot     2048MB        0MB     2048MB       0%  /vol/testvol/.snapshot

 

Changing the snapshot reserve to 5% of the volume size

 

geekyfacts-filer >   snap reserve testvol 5

 

geekyfacts-filer >   snap reserve  testvol
Volume testvol: current snapshot reserve is 5% or 524288 k-bytes.

 

geekyfacts-filer >   df -h testvol
Filesystem               total       used      avail capacity  Mounted on
/vol/testvol/           9728MB     1796KB     9726MB       0%  /vol/testvol/
/vol/testvol/.snapshot      512MB        0MB      512MB       0%  /vol/testvol/.snapshot
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Snap Restore


Export and mount the testvol to put some contents in the volume.

 

geekyfacts-filer >   exportfs  -p rw=geekyfacts.com,root=geekyfacts.com /vol/testvol

 

Login to the server for which volume was exported(in our case  geekyfacts.com)

 

[root@geekyfacts]# mkdir /test

[root@geekyfacts]#  mount geekyfacts-filer:/vol/testvol /test

[root@geekyfacts]#  df -h /test
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
geekyfacts-filer:/vol/testvol
                      9.5G  1.8M  9.5G   1% /test

[root@geekyfacts]#  cd /test

[root@geekyfacts]# touch file.before_snapshot

 

geekyfacts-filer > snap create testvol testsnap
creating snapshot...

 

geekyfacts-filer > snap list testvol
Volume testvol
working...

  %/used       %/total  date          name
----------  ----------  ------------  --------
  0% ( 0%)    0% ( 0%)  Dec 19 02:15  testsnap

 

[root@geekyfacts]# touch file.aftersnap

 

[root@geekyfacts]# ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Dec 19 02:16 file.aftersnap
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Dec 19 02:15 file.before_snapshot

 

Snapshot testsnap hold only file.before_snapshot

 

[root@geekyfacts]#  ls .snapshot/testsnap/
file.before_snapshot

Volume restore using Snapshot

 

geekyfacts-filer >  snap  restore -t vol -s testsnap testvol

WARNING! This will revert the volume to a previous snapshot.
All modifications to the volume after the snapshot will be
irrevocably lost.

Volume testvol will be made restricted briefly before coming back online.

Are you sure you want to do this? yes

You have selected volume testvol, snapshot testsnap

Proceed with revert? yes
Volume testvol: revert successful.

 

[root@geekyfacts]#  ls
file.before_snapshot

File Restore using Snapshot

 

[root@geekyfacts]# rm file.before_snapshot
rm: remove regular empty file `file.before_snapshot'? y

 

geekyfacts-filer>  snap restore -t file -s testsnap -r /vol/testvol/file.before_snapshot  /vol/testvol/file.before_snapshot

WARNING! This will restore a file from a snapshot into the active
filesystem.  If the file already exists in the active filesystem,
it will be overwritten with the contents from the snapshot.

Are you sure you want to do this? yes

You have selected file /vol/testvol/file.before_snapshot, snapshot testsnap
It will be restored as /vol/testvol/file.before_snapshot

Proceed with restore? yes

 

[root@geekyfacts]# ls
file.before_snapshot
geekyfacts-file >#

Snap Delta


 

[root@geekyfacts]# touch file{1,2,3,4}

 

geekyfacts-file >  snap create testvol testsnap1
creating snapshot...

 

geekyfacts-file >  snap list testvol
Volume testvol
working...

  %/used       %/total  date          name
----------  ----------  ------------  --------
  0% ( 0%)    0% ( 0%)  Dec 19 02:23  testsnap1
 19% (19%)    0% ( 0%)  Dec 19 02:15  testsnap

 

geekyfacts-file >  snap delta testvol

Volume testvol
working...

From Snapshot   To                   KB changed  Time         Rate (KB/hour)
--------------- -------------------- ----------- ------------ ---------------
testsnap1       Active File System   56          20s          10080.000
testsnap        testsnap1            424           0d 00:08   3173.388

Summary...

From Snapshot   To                   KB changed  Time         Rate (KB/hour)
--------------- -------------------- ----------- ------------ ---------------
testsnap        Active File System   480           0d 00:08   3449.101

geekyfacts-file>

 

Snap reclaimable


 

geekyfacts-file >  snap reclaimable testvol testsnap
Processing (Press Ctrl-C to exit) .
snap reclaimable: Approximately 424 Kbytes would be freed.

 

Last Updated on Monday, 22 December 2008 08:36