Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Accessing a Snapshot on the Mounted File System

On Compute Cloud@Customer, when a file system snapshot is created, the snapshot is placed in the file system. If the file system is mounted in a client system, you can access the snapshot on the client system.

The snapshot is accessible in this directory path: <mount-point>/.zfs/snapshot/<snapshot-name>.

From a UNIX OS Client

  1. Log into the instance OS that has the mounted the file system from which the snapshot was made.

  2. List the snapshots.

    Syntax:

    ls -la <mount-point>/.zfs/snapshot/

    Example:

    ls -la  /mnt/MyMountPoint/.zfs/snapshot
total 17
dr-xr-xr-x. 4 root root 4 Sep  8 15:54 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 4 root root 4 Sep  1 17:27 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 7 Sep  8 15:53 file-system-FS-snapshot-02
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 6 Sep  1 18:12 file-system-FS-snapshot-01

  3. Change to the directory of a snapshot.

    Example:

    cd /mnt/MyMountPoint/.zfs/snapshot/file-system-FS-snapshot-02

  4. List the contents of the snapshot.

    ls -la
total 3027
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root       7 Sep  8 15:53 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 4 root root       4 Sep  8 15:54 ..
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     429 Sep  8 15:53 example1
drwxr-x---. 2 root sys        3 Sep  1 17:28 .$EXTEND
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root       2 Sep  1 18:10 ABC-directory
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root       0 Sep  1 18:10 xyz-file
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3073219 Sep  1 18:12 zap.zip