Getting Started - Recovering Pruned and Deleted Data
If the meta data is deleted from the CommServe by the data aging process,
you can recover the actual backup data if it is available in the physical
media using the following steps.
For example:
In the “vaulting” event where the tape is in the vault, but has been
aged or deleted in the CommServe – and if the tape has not come back in
to the scratch pool for overwrite - or it has not been erased – then you
should be able to use this method to re-activate those old jobs by importing
them back into the CommCell.
This capability is supported for Windows-based pruned and deleted data only.
Perform the following procedure to recover the pruned and deleted data on a media:
Catalog Media
1.
From the CommCell Console, navigate to Storage
Resources | Libraries | Tape Library | Media By
Location | Media in Library .
2.
Right-click the media from Media in Library .
Select Mark for Catalog. The Media will be moved to
Media By Groups | Catalog Media group.
The media should be moved to Catalog
Media group to avoid the backup job selecting the same media
that is to be cataloged.
3.
Right-click the media from Catalog Media group.
Select Catalog
4.
Select
Catalog Only .
5.
Select the Drive Pool from the list.
6.
Click OK .
Viewing Catalog Contents
7.
Right click the media and select View Catalog Content.
8.
Data on Catalog Media window displays the Cataloged content.
Merging the Cataloged Data
9.
Right-click the already cataloged media in Data on Catalog
Media window.
Select Catalog .
10.
Select Merge Only from the Catalog options.
11.
Select a Drive Pool (Media Agent) from the list.
12.
Click OK . The cataloged data will now be merged with CommServe
database.
Recovering deleted data from Cataloged Media
13.
Right-click the Client | View | Job
History.
14.
Select Data Management .
Click Advanced .
15.
Select Include Aged Data . We need to select this option
since the data merged in to CommServe Database will be considered as
Aged Data.
Click OK .
16.
Right-click the Job and click Browse .
17.
Select the browse options.
Click OK .
18.
Select the data and click Recover All Selected ...
19.
Click OK to start
the recovery operation.
Viewing Job History
You can view the job details, logs and events from Data Recovery Job history
window once the recovery operation is
completed.
20.
Right-click the Client | View | Job
History.
21.
Select Data Restore Operations
Click OK .
15.
22.
Right-click the job
Click View Job Details to view the following details:
Job ID and summary
View Job Details
View Number of Attempts.
Click View Logs to view the logs of the recovery job.
Click View Events to view the Events of the recovery job.
