After snapshots have been created of a dataset, they can be accessed and viewed. After selecting a dataset from the Connections pane, click on the ‘Snapshots’ button near the bottom.

This brings up the snapshots screen for the selected dataset. At the top, filters can be set to only view snapshots from a certain time range. On the left, all the snapshots that match the filter parameters will be listed. Each one can be toggled on and off, and all the files present in the selected snapshots will be displayed in the panel on the right. Each file has a chart associated with it that shows its size over the course of the selected snapshots.

From the snapshots page, any item in any snapshot can be restored. To do this, click on the dropdown arrow on an item in the snapshot, and select ‘Restore.’

In the dialog box that shows up, choose whether the restored file should overwrite any existing file, rename the existing, or rename the restored file. Select ‘Restore’ to complete the action.

It is sometimes necessary to hold snapshots past the normal expiration period. They can be assigned a tag that will be used to report on and enable an admin to remove all holds across all datasets on the appliance with that hold tag. You can also set an expiration on the hold tag itself. No snapshot will be removed from the dataset if there is a hold tag applied.

To release a hold tag you can just click release hold on the appropriate data sets.

If you delete a dataset you will delete the snapshots with it. If there are snapshots with a hold tag in the dataset pending destruction it will ask you to remove and release the holds before it can proceed destroying the dataset.