Isilon: How to export and import SmartQuotas

Introduction

With SmartQuotas, you can control and limit storage usage and provision a single pool of Isilon scale-out storage. The WebUI or command-line interface can be used to export and import SmartQuotas configuration files in XML format if you must back them up or restore them.

Procedure

Export SmartQuotas

To export SmartQuotas from the Isilon web administration interface:

1. Select File System > SmartQuotas > Edit Quotas.
2. Perform a search query that matches the result set that you want to export.
3. When the search result set that you want to export appears on the Search Quotas page, click Export. A dialog box appears, prompting you to save or open the IsilonQuotaConfiguration.xml file. Here, you can modify the file name as needed.

To export SmartQuotas at the command prompt:

1. Open an SSH connection on any node in the cluster and log in using the "root" account.
2. Run the following command:
   
   isi quota list --export > /ifs/data/IsilonQuotaConfiguration.xml
    

Import SmartQuotas

To import SmartQuotas from the Isilon web administration interface:

1. Select File System > SmartQuotas > Summary.
2. In the Quotas section, click Import quotas.
3. In the Quota configuration file box, click Browse. Locate the quota configuration file to import, and then click Open to select the file.
4. Click Import.

To import SmartQuotas at the command prompt:

1. Open an SSH connection on any node in the cluster and log in using the "root" account.
2. Run the following command, where < ImportFile> is the name of the file that you want to import:
   
   isi quota import --from-file=<ImportFile>