How to determine access times from an NFS client

When Data ONTAP creates a Snapshot copy, the access time of each file in the Snapshot copy is updated to the Snapshot copy creation time.

Step

To determine when Snapshot copies were created, from an NFS client, enter the following command: ls -lu filename .snapshot/*/file_name

ls -lu myfile.txt .snapshot/*/myfile.txt-rw-r--r-- 1 smith 0 Jan 14 09:40 myfile.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 smith 0 Jan 14 00:00 .snapshot/nightly.0/myfile.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 smith 0 Jan 13 00:00 .snapshot/nightly.1/myfile.txt

Note: On a UNIX client, if you use ls -l instead of ls -lu to list the Snapshot copy creation times, the times are not necessarily all different. The times listed by ls -l reflect the modification times of the directory at the time of each Snapshot copy, and are not related to the times at which the Snapshot copies are created.

Parent topic: Why you need to access a particular Snapshot copy