You are creating daily SnapVault backups of a NAS volume that contains the data for your business critical application. You discover that corruption…

A volume restore from a SnapVault backup is a disruptive operation. The source volume is taken offline during the restore process to ensure data consistency. When you restore a volume to a specific point-in-time Snapshot copy (in this case, one from two weeks ago, just before the corruption began), ONTAP reverts the volume to that state. This process deletes all Snapshot copies on the source volume that are newer than the Snapshot copy being restored. The Snapshot copy you are restoring from, and any that are older than it, are preserved.

A. The restore is disruptive, but Snapshot copies newer than the two-week-old restore point are deleted, not preserved.

B. The restore is disruptive, not nondisruptive, and the most recent Snapshot copies are deleted.

D. The restore is disruptive, not nondisruptive, making this statement incorrect even though the second part is true.

1. NetApp ONTAP 9 Data Protection Guide: In the section "Restoring a volume," the documentation states, "The restore operation is disruptive. The source volume is taken offline while the baseline Snapshot copy is restored... When you restore a volume from a Snapshot copy, ONTAP deletes all Snapshot copies on the source volume that are newer than the Snapshot copy that is being restored. The Snapshot copy that you are restoring from and any older Snapshot copies are preserved." (Search for "Restoring a volume" in the ONTAP 9 Data Protection Guide for your specific version).

2. NetApp Technical Report TR-4015, SnapMirror Configuration and Best Practices Guide for ONTAP 9: In the "Volume Restore" section, it is specified that "A volume restore is a disruptive operation. The source volume is taken offline... All Snapshot copies on the source volume that are newer than the Snapshot copy being restored are deleted." (See Section 5.3, "Volume Restore").