Once you locate the item you'd like to restore, simply copy it to the current, live, network folder overwriting any existing version if you want to replace it.

You can browse through the folders looking like any other.

A new Finder window will open showing you a list of available snapshot folders.

In the screenshot below we show you accessing the snapshots for the IT department location which is named ccenter.

Enter the path to your department drive and add '~snapshot' to the end, similar to the this: smb://microwave/dept/department_name/~snapshot where department_name is the network name of your department.

From the Finder menu, click on Go - Connect to Server.

The process is the same for each volume or location you'd like to browse to however we've provided the steps for the department drive and personal Microwave locations. You can access the snapshots through Apple's Finder by mounting a new location to the network. How do you access Snapshots? MacOS / OS X These locations may have different schedules so if you are accessing data outside of the two previously mentioned locations and would like to know the backup schedule, contact the Service Desk. Some locations have data that changes much less frequently. Your Microwave home directory and your department directories backup on the schedule above. Snapshots do vary depending on the network location. When weekly.0 ages out, the previous snapshots are removed and the cycle continues. This progresses through nightly.4 when it becomes weekly.0. On day 2 the nightly.0 is copied to nightly.1 and the new hourly.13 is converted to nightly.0. Hourly.13 is converted into nightly.0 and the process starts again at the hourly.0. An hour later, the hourly.0 snapshot is moved to hourly.1 and then another snapshot is taken. The backups work as follows:Ī snapshot is taken at hour 0 (named hourly.0). We also take and keep the last five days and then a single week's worth of snapshots so that you can access a backup if needed up to a week old. Information Technology automatically takes incremental backups, called snapshots, for many network file locations on Microwave periodically throughout the day.

Drive snapshot