Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Restoring a Snapshot (UNIX-Based Instances)

On Compute Cloud@Customer, you can restore individual snapshot files or an entire snapshot using the cp command.

Note

Optionally, you can use rsync, tar, or another tool that supports NFS to copy your data to another remote location.

Using the Instance OS

  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. Use the cp command to copy individual snapshot files, or the entire snapshot to a location of your choice.

    Use the -r option when restoring a snapshot that contains subdirectories.

    Example:

    cp -r /mnt/MyMountPoint/.zfs/snapshot/<snapshot_name>/* <destination_directory>