HP StorageWorks 4000s NAS 4000s and 9000s Administration Guide - Page 107
NFS Shadow Copies, Restore, Previous Versions
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Shadow Copies Users access shadow copies with Windows Explorer by selecting View, Copy, or Restore, from the Previous Versions tab. See Figure 55. Both individual files and folders may be restored. Figure 55: Client GUI When users view a network folder hosted on the NAS device for which shadow copies are enabled, old versions (prior to the snapshot) of a file or directory are available. Viewing the properties of the file or folder presents users with the folder or file history-a list of read-only, point-in-time copies of the file or folder contents that users can then open and explore like any other file or folder. Users can view files in the folder history, copy files from the folder history, and so on. NFS Shadow Copies UNIX users can independently access previous versions of files stored on NFS shares via the NFS client; no additional software is required. Server for NFS exposes each of a share's available shadow copies as a pseudo-subdirectory of the share. Each of these pseudo-subdirectories is displayed in exactly the same way as a regular subdirectory is displayed. The name of each pseudo-subdirectory reflects the creation time of the shadow copy, using the [email protected]:MM:SS. Note that, to prevent common tools from needlessly enumerating the pseudo-subdirectories, the name of each pseudo-subdirectory begins with the dot character, thus rendering it hidden. The following example shows an NFS share named "NFSShare" with three shadow copies, taken on April 27, 28, and 29 of 2003 at 4 a.m. NFSShare [email protected]:00:00 [email protected]:00:00 [email protected]:00:00 NAS 4000s and 9000s Administration Guide 107