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Volume restore workflow

When your source volume is unavailable or data is corrupted, you can perform a restore from a SnapVault backup. Restoring a volume from a SnapVault backup involves selecting the SnapVault destination volume, restoring either to a new volume or existing volume, and verifying the restore operation.


This illustration is a flowchart of the SnapVault volume restore workflow. The steps in the workflow match the topics in this guide.">

  • Identifying the SnapVault backup destination volume
    You must identify the SnapVault backup destination volume from which you want to restore data when the data in the source volume is corrupted or lost.
  • Restoring data from a SnapVault backup
    After selecting the SnapVault backup destination volume, you must perform the restore operation either to a new volume to test the backed-up data or to an existing volume to restore the lost or corrupted data. You must log in to the command line interface (CLI) to run the following snapmirror restore command.You can restore the contents of an entire volume from a Snapshot copy in a SnapMirror destination volume.You can restore the contents of a volume to the original source volume or to a different volume.
  • Verifying the restore operation
    After performing the restore operation from the SnapVault backup destination volume, you must verify the status of the restore operation on the source cluster.