Reading a snapshot with the policy engine

You can use the policy engine to read the contents of a snapshot for backup purposes. The mmapplypolicy command provides the -S option to specify the snapshot during a policy run. Instead of matching rules to the active file system, the policy engine matches the rules against files in the snapshot.
Notes:
  1. Snapshots are read-only. Policy rules such as MIGRATE or DELETE that make changes or delete files cannot be used with a snapshot.
  2. An instance of mmapplypolicy can only scan one snapshot. Directing it at the .snapshots directory itself will result in a failure.

For complete usage information, see mmapplypolicy command.