NetApp AltaVault Cloud Integrated Storage Administration Guide 253
Recovering data from Amazon Glacier Best practices for Amazon Glacier
The Prepopulation File Browser enables you to browse the files on the AltaVault shares. For each file, it displays
the file size, modification time (appears when you hover the cursor over a specific file), and its estimated size on
disk.
Select a file or a list of files, and click Fetch Percent Locally Cached for selected files to obtain the locally
cached percent in the AltaVault cache. This process might be slow for large files.
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Optionally, specify a list of complete path names, separated by the pipe ( | ) character, to the files that you want in
the List of files to be prepopulated. Refer to the following examples:
To prepopulate the file /nfs/dir_1/dir_2/test-2.txt, enter the following path name:
/nfs/dir_1/dir_2/test-2.slab
To prepopulate the files /nfs/dir_1/test-1.txt and /nfsv4/dir_1/dir_2/test-2.txt, enter the following path names:
/nfs/dir_1/test-1.slab|/nfsv4/dir_1/dir_2/test-2.slab
To prepopulate all the files under /nfs, enter the following path name:
/nfs/*
To prepopulate the files /smb/app_1/test_file.txt and /smb/app_2/test_file.txt, enter the following path names:
/smb/app_1/test_file.txt|/smb/app_2/test_file.txt
To prepopulate all the files under /smb/app_1/, enter the following path name:
/smb/app_1/*
4. Select the check box next to the file (displayed in the list) names you want to prepopulate.
5. Click Prepopulate Selected Files and select the retrieval method for the files: Expedited, Standard, or Bulk. If no
option is selected, the recovery type defaults to Standard.
6. Click OK to prepopulation of the selected files. AltaVault displays the Prepopulation Report Status page, providing
information related to each job:
Field Description
Job ID AltaVault assigned job number associated with each retrieval operation.
Progress Percent of job downloaded from the cloud to the AltaVault local cache.