Netgear ReadyNAS 104 User Manual

Strictly speaking, users who access the ReadyNAS through an iSCSI-attached device do not 
have access to snapshots. However, you can clone a snapshot of a LUN to become a new 
independent LUN, and then assign the LUN clone to a LUN group that the users can access. 

To recover data from the LUN clone, users must access the LUN clone from the same type of 
iSCSI-attached device that was used to format the parent of the clone. For example, if the 
parent LUN was formatted using a Windows device, users must access the LUN clone using 
a Windows device.

Recovering data from a snapshot to an iSCSI-attached device involves the following 
high-level steps:

Clone a snapshot of a LUN.

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independent LUN. 

Assign the LUN clone to a LUN group that the users can access.

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104.

The LUN clone appears on the iSCSI-attached device as a virtual block device. The 
iSCSI-attached device treats LUNs in the LUN group as locally attached disks. Now users 
can access the LUN clone from the iSCSI-attached device.

Locate the snapshot data on the LUN clone from the iSCSI-attached device.

Users can access data on the LUN clone according to their access rights. Users who 
have read/write access to the LUNs in the LUN group can explore the snapshot data in 
the LUN clone and recover any desired data.