diff --git a/server/src/config/mod.rs b/server/src/config/mod.rs
index 2a131be9..666eff1a 100644
--- a/server/src/config/mod.rs
+++ b/server/src/config/mod.rs
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 
 //! This module provides tools to handle configuration files and settings
 
-use crate::diskstore::snapshot::DIR_SNAPSHOT;
 #[cfg(test)]
 use libsky::TResult;
 use serde::Deserialize;
@@ -36,7 +35,6 @@ use std::fs;
 #[cfg(test)]
 use std::net::Ipv6Addr;
 use std::net::{IpAddr, Ipv4Addr};
-use std::path::PathBuf;
 use toml;
 
 const DEFAULT_IPV4: IpAddr = IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::new(127, 0, 0, 1));
@@ -407,14 +405,10 @@ impl fmt::Display for ConfigError {
 /// This parses a configuration file if it is supplied as a command line argument
 /// or it returns the default configuration. **If** the configuration file
 /// contains an error, then this returns it as an `Err` variant
-pub fn get_config_file_or_return_cfg() -> Result<ConfigType<ParsedConfig, PathBuf>, ConfigError> {
+pub fn get_config_file_or_return_cfg() -> Result<ConfigType<ParsedConfig, String>, ConfigError> {
     let cfg_layout = load_yaml!("../cli.yml");
     let matches = App::from_yaml(cfg_layout).get_matches();
-    let restorefile = matches.value_of("restore").map(|val| {
-        let mut path = PathBuf::from(DIR_SNAPSHOT);
-        path.push(val);
-        path
-    });
+    let restorefile = matches.value_of("restore").map(|v| v.to_string());
     // Check flags
     let sslonly = matches.is_present("sslonly");
     let noart = matches.is_present("noart");
diff --git a/server/src/coredb/mod.rs b/server/src/coredb/mod.rs
index 2a182c19..74f335bf 100644
--- a/server/src/coredb/mod.rs
+++ b/server/src/coredb/mod.rs
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ use parking_lot::RwLock;
 use parking_lot::RwLockReadGuard;
 use parking_lot::RwLockWriteGuard;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
-use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use tokio;
 use tokio::sync::Notify;
@@ -285,9 +284,9 @@ impl CoreDB {
     pub fn new(
         bgsave: BGSave,
         snapshot_cfg: SnapshotConfig,
-        restore_file: Option<PathBuf>,
+        restore_file: Option<String>,
     ) -> TResult<(Self, Option<flock::FileLock>, flock::FileLock)> {
-        let coretable = diskstore::get_saved(restore_file)?;
+        let coretable = diskstore::get_snapshot(restore_file)?;
         let mut background_tasks: usize = 0;
         if !bgsave.is_disabled() {
             background_tasks += 1;
diff --git a/server/src/dbnet/mod.rs b/server/src/dbnet/mod.rs
index d6ee5e29..481ce0d2 100644
--- a/server/src/dbnet/mod.rs
+++ b/server/src/dbnet/mod.rs
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ use std::fs;
 use std::future::Future;
 use std::io::ErrorKind;
 use std::net::IpAddr;
-use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::process;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use tls::SslListener;
@@ -315,7 +314,7 @@ pub async fn run(
     bgsave_cfg: BGSave,
     snapshot_cfg: SnapshotConfig,
     sig: impl Future,
-    restore_filepath: Option<PathBuf>,
+    restore_filepath: Option<String>,
 ) -> (CoreDB, flock::FileLock) {
     let (signal, _) = broadcast::channel(1);
     let (terminate_tx, terminate_rx) = mpsc::channel(1);
diff --git a/server/src/diskstore/mod.rs b/server/src/diskstore/mod.rs
index 63d58fe7..c2e415ec 100644
--- a/server/src/diskstore/mod.rs
+++ b/server/src/diskstore/mod.rs
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 
 use crate::config::BGSave;
 use crate::coredb::{self, Data};
+use crate::diskstore::snapshot::{DIR_OLD_SNAPSHOT, DIR_SNAPSHOT};
 use bincode;
 use bytes::Bytes;
 use libsky::TResult;
@@ -53,17 +54,39 @@ lazy_static::lazy_static! {
     pub static ref OLD_PATH: PathBuf = PathBuf::from("./data.bin");
 }
 
+pub fn get_snapshot(path: Option<String>) -> TResult<Option<HashMap<String, Data>>> {
+    if let Some(path) = path {
+        // the path just has the snapshot name, let's improve that
+        let mut snap_location = PathBuf::from(DIR_SNAPSHOT);
+        snap_location.push(path);
+        let file = match fs::read(snap_location) {
+            Ok(f) => f,
+            Err(e) => match e.kind() {
+                ErrorKind::NotFound => {
+                    // Probably the old snapshot directory?
+                    match fs::read(DIR_OLD_SNAPSHOT) {
+                        Ok(f) => f,
+                        _ => return Err(e.into()),
+                    }
+                }
+                _ => return Err(e.into()),
+            },
+        };
+        let parsed = deserialize(file)?;
+        Ok(Some(parsed))
+    } else {
+        Ok(None)
+    }
+}
+
 /// Try to get the saved data from disk. This returns `None`, if the `data/data.bin` wasn't found
 /// otherwise the `data/data.bin` file is deserialized and parsed into a `HashMap`
-pub fn get_saved(location: Option<PathBuf>) -> TResult<Option<HashMap<String, Data>>> {
-    let file = match fs::read(
-        location
-            .map(|loc| loc.to_path_buf())
-            .unwrap_or(PERSIST_FILE.to_path_buf()),
-    ) {
+pub fn get_saved() -> TResult<Option<HashMap<String, Data>>> {
+    let file = match fs::read(&*PERSIST_FILE) {
         Ok(f) => f,
         Err(e) => match e.kind() {
             ErrorKind::NotFound => {
+                // TODO(@ohsayan): Drop support for this in the future
                 // This might be an old installation still not using the data/data.bin path
                 match fs::read(OLD_PATH.to_path_buf()) {
                     Ok(f) => {
@@ -94,6 +117,11 @@ pub fn get_saved(location: Option<PathBuf>) -> TResult<Option<HashMap<String, Da
             _ => return Err(format!("Couldn't read flushed data from disk: {}", e).into()),
         },
     };
+    let parsed = deserialize(file)?;
+    Ok(Some(parsed))
+}
+
+fn deserialize(file: Vec<u8>) -> TResult<HashMap<String, Data>> {
     let parsed: DiskStoreFromDisk = bincode::deserialize(&file)?;
     let parsed: HashMap<String, Data> = HashMap::from_iter(
         parsed
@@ -105,7 +133,7 @@ pub fn get_saved(location: Option<PathBuf>) -> TResult<Option<HashMap<String, Da
                 (key, data)
             }),
     );
-    Ok(Some(parsed))
+    Ok(parsed)
 }
 
 /// Flush the in-memory table onto disk
diff --git a/server/src/diskstore/snapshot.rs b/server/src/diskstore/snapshot.rs
index f525c38a..64b6c020 100644
--- a/server/src/diskstore/snapshot.rs
+++ b/server/src/diskstore/snapshot.rs
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ lazy_static::lazy_static! {
 ///
 /// This is currently a `snapshot` directory under the current directory
 pub const DIR_SNAPSHOT: &'static str = "data/snapshots";
+pub const DIR_OLD_SNAPSHOT: &'static str = "snapshots";
 /// The default snapshot count is 12, assuming that the user would take a snapshot
 /// every 2 hours (or 7200 seconds)
 const DEF_SNAPSHOT_COUNT: usize = 12;
@@ -246,9 +247,7 @@ fn test_snapshot() {
     let mut snapengine = SnapshotEngine::new(4, &db, Some(&ourdir)).unwrap();
     let _ = snapengine.mksnap();
     let current = snapengine.get_snapshots().next().unwrap();
-    let read_hmap = diskstore::get_saved(Some(PathBuf::from(current)))
-        .unwrap()
-        .unwrap();
+    let read_hmap = fs::read(PathBuf::from(current)).unwrap();
     let dbhmap = db.get_hashmap_deep_clone();
     assert_eq!(read_hmap, dbhmap);
     snapengine.clearall().unwrap();
@@ -328,6 +327,7 @@ mod queue {
     //!
     //! This implementation is specifically built for use with the snapshotting utility
     use std::path::PathBuf;
+    #[cfg(test)]
     use std::slice::Iter;
     #[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
     pub struct Queue {
@@ -368,6 +368,7 @@ mod queue {
                 x
             }
         }
+        #[cfg(test)]
         /// Returns an iterator over the slice of strings
         pub fn iter(&self) -> Iter<PathBuf> {
             self.queue.iter()