3.
Configure server access to the snapshot
4.
If you mount a Windows application-managed snapshot as a volume, use
diskpart.exe
to change the resulting volume's attributes, as described in
“Making a Windows
application-managed snapshot available” (page 171)
.
When you have mounted the snapshot on a host, you can do the following:
•
Recover individual files or folders and restore to an alternate location
•
Use the data for creating backups
Making a Windows application-managed snapshot available
If you do any of the following using a Windows application-managed snapshot, you must use
diskpart.exe
to make the resulting volume available:
•
Convert temporary space
•
Create a SmartClone
•
Promote a remote volume to a primary volume
Failover/Failback Volume Wizard and selecting the “Failover the Primary Volume to the
Selected Remote Volume Below” option
◦
◦
Edit Volume and changing a remote snapshot to a primary volume
Making a Windows application-managed snapshot available on a stand-alone server
Use this procedure to make a Windows application-managed snapshot available on a stand-alone
server (not part of a Microsoft cluster).
1.
Disconnect the iSCSI sessions.
2.
Do one of the following (based on what you want to do with the application-managed
snapshot):
•
Convert temporary space.
•
Create a SmartClone.
•
Promote a remote volume to a primary volume using:
◦
Failover/Failback Volume Wizard and selecting the “Failover the Primary Volume
to the Selected Remote Volume Below” option.
◦
Edit Volume and changing a remote snapshot to a primary volume.
3.
Connect the iSCSI sessions to the new target volume.
4.
Launch Windows Logical Disk Manager.
5.
Bring the disk online.
6.
Open a Windows command line and run
diskpart.exe
.
7.
List the disks that appear to this server by typing the command
list disk
.
8.
Select the disk you are working with by typing
select disk #
(where # is the corresponding
number of the disk in the list).
9.
Display the options set at the disk level by typing
detail disk
.
If the disk is listed as read-only, change it by typing
att disk clear readonly
.
10.
Select the volume you are working with by typing
select volume #
(where # is the
corresponding number of the volume in the list).
11.
Display the volume's attributes by typing
att vol
.
The volume will show that it is hidden, read-only, and shadow copy.
12.
Change these attributes by typing
att vol clear readonly hidden shadowcopy
.
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