snapshot takes your filesystem state at a moment, what about a directory you create after the snapshot had been taken ?
if you go into this directory, (after had mapped the cifs shares) obviously, this directory was not previously catched in a snapshot
for this, the normal operation of the filer is to display snapshot as files
as I can see your image, I would guess that this directory llevinson was created after the nightly.3 snapshot was taken and before nightly.2 was taken.
so, if this is true, then there is no problem with your filer
if it is wrong, then there should be a serious problem with the filer can you check this snapshot state from any other machines ? (try from unix)
also, are you absolutly really sure that the directory was not delete then recreate (by any user or any application) that would explain this situation
hth
Steve Evans wrote:
Look at this screen shot. It's of a users folders snapshot directory. http://planetevans.com/netapp/snapshot.jpg
You can see that all the snapshots after nightly.3 are regular files. When I double click on them they want me to choose a program to open it with.
This is of the directory \filer\finance\llevinson~snapshot
If I go through \filer\finance~snapshot<snapshot>\llevinson I can access everything just fine.
Also several days ago (the day that lines up with the bad snapshots) everything from \filer\finance\llevinson (the live data) disappeared and we had to pull it from the last snapshot (hourly.0 which was good)
I'm working with NetApp right now. Originally I had 6.1.3R2 and they said there were several CIFS issues with that version of ONTAP, so I upgraded to 6.3.1R1. Unfortunately (or fortunately) it only happens once a month or less. Has anyone seen anything like this before?
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