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Mesfun, in noting that each is a directory placeholder I wonder what the contents are for each shown. It may require interactive access to your desktop to see the actual representation.
I would assume you keep the snapshot for a period of time or that if you have a good one some older one can be removed. This assumption is due to the risk of filling the drive with unmonitored snaps as they build up in consumption of the filesystem.
I would expect that you could see the data and location in the Snapshot tool or a windows Explorer pointed to the CIFS share hosting the data. There is a management plug-in (1) that allows review of the shares. Our workspace would be expected to allow you to drill down to directories and files that exist under the share and have not been excluded from scanning.
If you are auditing the share I expect the monitoring data would show create for these locations and their contents on the hourly completion cycle.
what do the files and directory hierarchy look like in the console view of the Array device itself?
I will enable snapshot on a lab server and see if i can duplicate your view as a method to understanding what you are seeing without connecting to your server.
Rod
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MMC Snap-in
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A plug-in to the Microsoft Management Console. These plug-ins can be arbitrarily grouped into a single, customized MMC view by using the mmc.exe /console command. Microsoft provides many such plug-ins, but third-party vendors such as EMC may also provide plug-ins to manage their own products.
EMC VNX File CIFS Management is an example of an MMC Snap-in that is provided by EMC.
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