You can mount a pool snapshot as a pool in order to make the point-in-time versions of the volumes available.When it is mounted, the pool snapshot appears on the _SV appended to the name, such as VOL1_SV.
page by its snapshot name. The volumes on the pool appear on the page with anFor example, you might want to mount a snapshot as a pool to back up data from the snapshot version of the volumes. Snapshot functions occur while the snapshot pool is active, whether the snapshot is mounted or dismounted. Snapshots are typically not mounted for general user access purposes.
You can use iManager to online or offline pool snapshots for NSS volumes on Linux or NetWare.
In iManager, log on to the tree for the server you want to manage.
In
, click to open the page.Select the server that contains the original pool of the snapshot you want to manage.
In the
list, select the original pool of the snapshot you want to manage, then click to open the page.Select one or more pool snapshots that you want to manage, then click
.This activates the selected pool snapshots and their volumes. The volumes are not mounted automatically.
If you need to access a pool snapshot volume, mount the volume.
In
, click to open the page.On Linux, if you need to verify NSS metadata information for the snapshot volume while it is online, select the snapshot volume, then click
to create a Volume object for the volume.On NetWare, the Volume object is created automatically when you online the pool snapshot.
On the
page, select the snapshot volume you want to manage, then click .You can use iManager to offline pool snapshots for NSS volumes on Linux or NetWare.
In iManager, log on to the tree for the server you want to manage.
In
, click to open the page.Select the server that contains the original pool of the snapshot you want to manage.
If the snapshot volumes for the pool snapshot are currently mounted, go to the
page, select the mounted snapshot volumes, then click .In the
list, select the original pool of the snapshot you want to manage, then click to open the page.All snapshot volumes are automatically offlined at this time.
Select one or more pool snapshots that you want to manage, then click
> .This makes the selected pool snapshots and all the volumes in them unavailable to users. It does not destroy volumes in the snapshots, nor does it destroy the data contained in the volumes.
On Linux, you can use NSSMU for Linux to online or offline the pool snapshot.
Open a terminal console, then log in as the root user.
At the terminal console prompt, enter
nssmu
In NSSMU, select
.Select the pool snapshot that you want to manage, the press
to mount or dismount the pool snapshot.The pool snapshot functions continue even though the snapshot is not mounted for general user access.