File Recovery

Snapshots¶

Snapshots are read only copies of the file system taken every day at 12:15, and retained for seven days.

Files from you project directory can be found in /nesi/project/.snapshots/ followed by the weekday (capitalised) and project code, e.g;

/nesi/project/.snapshots/Sunday/nesi99999/

And for home directory;

/home/username/.snapshots/Sunday/

Warning

Files in /nesi/nobackup/ are not snapshotted.

Recovering a file or a directory from the snapshot is as simple as copying it over, e.g.

cp /nesi/project/.snapshots/Sunday/nesi99999/file.txt /nesi/project/nesi99999/file.txt

Tip

For copying directories use the flag -ir or just -r if you don't want to be prompted before overwriting