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    Restore an individual file from a snapshot

    The following guide shows how to restore an individual file from a snapshot.

    Similar to reverting an instance , using a snapshot to restore a single file is a destructive operation. Use this feature carefully. For a detailed description of snapshot limitations, see Snapshot feature limitations .

    gcloud CLI

    To restore a file to a previous state that's captured in a snapshot, run the following command from a client VM that has the instance mounted:

     sudo  
cp  
-pa  
 MOUNT-POINT-DIRECTORY 
/.snapshot/ SNAPSHOT_ID 
/ FILE 
  
 MOUNT-POINT-DIRECTORY

    Example

    If you want to restore file mount-point-directory/genomics-file.txt to the state preserved in snapshot snap2 , run:

     sudo  
cp  
-pa  
mount-point-directory/.snapshot/snap2/genomics-file.txt  
mount-point-directory/

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