Recreating a destroyed vFiler

Why recreating a vFiler is easy

When you destroy a vFiler, it's resources are released and the associated configuration information is removed, but your user data remains intact; the data is not destroyed. You can recreate the original vFiler that you destroyed by using the -r option with the vfiler create command. When using the vfiler create -r command, you must specify the path to the original vFiler's primary storage unit (containing its /etc directory).

Additionally, when creating a vFiler, you can change the original name to a new name, and you can specify a different path name of the storage units.

To recreate a vFiler, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	Specify the path to the original vFiler's primary storage unit. `vfiler create` vfilername -r origin_vfiler_path `vfilername` is the name of the new vFiler you are creating. `origin_vfiler_path` is the path of the original vFiler's /etc storage. Example: vfiler create vfiler1 -r /vol/vol0/qtree1
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	Map the original path names to the new ones because the paths have been renamed	Enter the following command: *`vfiler create` new_vfiler_name* `-r` origin_vfiler `-b` old_vfiler_name `-p /vol/src1:/vol/dst1,/vol/src2:/vol/ dst2,...`**

Note
Although other components of the path name can be different, the actual names of the qtrees must not be changed. For example, /vol/orig1/qtree1 can be renamed to /vol/new/qtree1, but not to /vol/new/qtree2.