How to recover deleted file?

seanm

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Let's say I have an SMB share and a coworker deleted something he shouldn't have. Assuming there are snapshots that contain the file (ie the file wasn't deleted 2 seconds after being created), how do I restore the file?

I did search the docs, but I don't see this topic covered at all. I'm happy to be pointed to the right docs. Thanks!
 

Redcoat

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See notes on "rollback" in Section 9.2 of the manual and find this text:

"To restore the data within a snapshot, the recommended steps are:
  1. Clone the desired snapshot.
  2. Share the clone with the share type or service running on the FreeNAS® system.
  3. After users have recovered the needed data, delete the clone in the Active Pools tab.
This approach does not destroy any on-disk data and has no impact on replication."
 
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Or expose the snapshot via 'previous versions' on the share config
 

anodos

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ZFS rollbacks are destructive. The easiest way to restore is to copy out of the hidden .zfs/snasphot/ directory at the root of the ZFS dataset. If this is an SMB share you can access them through "previous versions" on a windows client or directly mounting the zfs snapshot directory on a macos client.

Example of mount string for MacOS on FN 11.3 smb://192.168.122.123/SHARE/.zfs/snapshot. You can do the same in 11.2, but you need to remove the "veto files=.zfs" parameter from the share. You can do this by adding the auxiliary parameter veto files = /.windows/.mac/
 
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Fredda

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If you have snapshots in place, select it in the configuration of your SMB share.

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With this setting you can restore that file via the windows properties dialog in tab "Previous Versions".
If the file was deleted just create an empty one with the same name.

If a whole bunch of files/directories was deleted use anodos' solution.
 
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