Restoring Deleted Files

Nightly snaphots of the file system are available for the last 30 days.

Restore a file from a snapshot in the last 30 days

Nightly snapshots of the file system are available for the last 30 days can be found in the following directories.

Home directory snapshot

/oscar/home/.snapshot/Oscar_<yyyy-mm-dd>_00_00_00_UTC/<username>/<path_to_file>

Data directory snapshot

/oscar/data/.snapshot/Oscar_<yyyy-mm-dd>_00_00_00_UTC/<groupname>/<username>/path_to_file>

Scratch directory snapshot

/oscar/scratch/.snapshot/Oscar_Daily_<yyyy-mm-dd>_00_00_00_UTC/<username>/<path_to_file>

To restore a file, copy the file from the snapshot to your directory.

e.g.:

ls -l /oscar/home/.snapshot/Osar_2023-06-22_00_00_00_UTC/ghopper/data
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ghopper navy 22 Mar  1  2016 /oscar/home/.snapshot/Osar_2023-06-22_00_00_00_UTC/ghopper/data -> /oscar/data/navy

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