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Find and Restore a File

Access a file on a network-connected Windows machine directly from the search results pane, then restore the file to a previous version using snapshot technology. Search for a file and ECX returns the location of every instance and version of that file across your NetApp ONTAP storage infrastructure.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN:

You can only browse files on providers that are registered and cataloged. Note that increasing the number of catalog instances to keep increases the number of versions that display on a file's properties pane. See Create an Inventory Job Definition - NetApp ONTAP File.
To enable NFS links from the File Links tab on an object's property pane, access ECX through a browser in a Linux environment. Additionally, an automounter must be running using the default local path of /net.
By default, CIFS users cannot see the .snapshot directory. Set the cifs.show_snapshot option to On to view the .snapshot directory.
Activate snapshot functionality on the host and enable the necessary access privileges for the user accessing the host. See Use a Script Job to Run Snap Creator.

To find and restore a file:

To restore a file on a Windows machine, search for the file in ECX and discover its location through the file's properties pane. Note that the Windows machine must have network access with snapshot functionality enabled and the volume where the file resides must be shared through CIFS.

Search for a file to restore, then click the file name in the search results pane to access the file's properties pane.
Select a version of the file to restore from the Versions tab.
Click the File Links tab.
Copy the CIFS file path.
Paste the path in Windows Explorer. Remove the file name from the path to view the file's containing folder. Press Enter.
Right-click the file to restore in Windows Explorer and select Restore previous versions.
Click the Previous Versions tab to view previous versions of the file.
On the file's properties pane, perform one of the following actions:

Select a previous version of the file and click Open to open the previous version without altering the original version.
Select a previous version of the file and click Copy to copy the previous version to an alternate location.
Select a previous version of the file and click Restore to replace or roll back the file to the selected previous version.