About this task

This task restores a filesystem from one of its snapshots.

Restoring relations among the filesystem and its descendants

The filesystem and its snapshots form an ancestry tree. Within the tree, the filesystem can be restored from each of its snapshots.

Prerequisites

• A filesystem
• A filesystem snapshot

Before you begin

1. Access the filesystem from the Volumes & FS screen. 
2. Select a filesystem.
3. In the Snapshot tab, expand the view to see the filesystem snapshots.

Instructions

1. Select a snapshot and select Restore from this Snapshot from the Actions menu.
   
   The Restore from Snapshot screen opens.
2. Select which ancestor of the snapshot to restore.
3. Click Restore.
   The selected filesystem is restored from the snapshot.

Related InfiniShell commands

Modifying the filesystem attributes using InfiniShell is available via the following commands:

• fs.restore - restores a filesystem from one of its snapshots