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Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Administrator’s Guide

Resetting a snapshot

As an alternative to taking a new snapshot of a volume, you can replace the data in a standard snapshot with the current data in the source volume. The snapshot name and mappings are not changed.

This feature is supported for all snapshots in a tree hierarchy. However, a virtual snapshot can only be reset to the parent volume or snapshot from which it was created.

CAUTION:To avoid data corruption, unmount a snapshot from hosts before resetting the snapshot.

You can reset a snapshot immediately. You also have the option of scheduling a reset-snapshot task.

To see more information about a snapshot, hover the cursor over the item in the volumes table. You can view different snapshot information by hovering the cursor over the snapshot in the Snapshots table. See Viewing volumes for more details about the Volume Information and Snapshot Information panels that appear.


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