Clone a Volume from a Snapshot

Clones of snapshots are useful for restoring individual files instead of a complete volume.

Cloning a volume from a snapshot creates a new volume with a new name, but keeps all other settings of the original, including the data at the time the snapshot was taken.

When you clone a volume, settings such as reported size, volume limit, and security are cloned. Clones are set online by default, and are writable.

NOTE: When a volume configured for synchronous replication is cloned, the cloned volume will not automatically be configured for synchronous replication.

Choose Manage → Data Storage.
Click the name of the volume you want to clone.
Click the Data Protection tab to determine if there are any snapshots for the volume.
If there are no existing snapshots for the volume, manually create a snapshot. See Take a Manual Snapshot for the steps.
Select the snapshot you want to clone a volume from, then click Clone.
Provide a Volume Name for the clone, then click OK.

NOTE: Names are case sensitive, can contain between 1 and 215 characters, dashes (-), dots (.), and colons (:) but cannot start with a dot, a dash, or a colon, and cannot contain underscores (_), spaces, or any other special characters.

The clone is created and appears in the list of volumes on the Data Storage page.

A clone is not automatically assigned to a volume collection. Edit the clone to assign it to the desired volume collection to ensure that snapshots and replicas will be made according to the desired schedule.