Restoring From a Snapshot

Restoring data from a snapshot involves a simple copy operation from the .snapshot directory to the destination, as in the following example. User input is marked in bold:

[user@host]$ maprcli volume snapshot create -snapshotname uservolsnap -volume users
[user@host]$ maprcli volume snapshot list
cumulativeReclaimSizeMB creationtime ownername snapshotid snapshotname volumeid volumename ownertype volumepath
0 Fri May 09 16:31:55 UTC 2014 mapr 256000049 uservolsnap 152963782 users 1 /user

[user@host]$ hadoop fs -ls /user
Found 3 items
drwxr-xr-x - root root 1 2014-05-06 10:09 /user/hive
drwxr-xr-x - mapr mapr 4 2014-05-09 16:20 /user/mapr
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2 2014-05-07 16:05 /user/root

[user@host]$ hadoop fs -ls /user/.snapshot
Found 1 items
drwxr-xr-x - mapr mapr 3 2014-05-06 16:00 /user/.snapshot/uservolsnap

[user@host]$ hadoop fs -ls /user/.snapshot/uservolsnap
Found 3 items
drwxr-xr-x - root root 1 2014-05-06 10:09 /user/.snapshot/uservolsnap/hive
drwxr-xr-x - mapr mapr 4 2014-05-09 16:20 /user/.snapshot/uservolsnap/mapr
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2 2014-05-07 16:05 /user/.snapshot/uservolsnap/root

[user@host]$ hadoop fs -cp /user/.snapshot/uservolsnap/mapr/* ~/mapr