List Media (Media Prediction) - How To
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List Media for a
Subclient
List Media for a
Backup Set or Instance
List Media Associated with
Index
List Media (Precise) for Specific Files and/or Folders
List Media for
specific Jobs
List Media for a Subclient
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To
list media for a subclient:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the subclient for which you wish to
list media and then click List Media.
- From the
List Media dialog box choose one of the following options:
Note that you can use the Specify Browse Time and Exclude Data
Before options to list media between a specified date and time range.
- Click OK.
The appropriate media is listed in the
Media
dialog box.
List Media for a Backup Set or Instance
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To
list
media for a backup set or instance:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the backup set or instance for which you wish to
list media, click All Tasks and then click Browse.
- From the Browse Options
dialog box, if required, select the following options:
- Click Browse the Latest Data to list media associated with
the most recent data protection cycle.
- Click Specify Browse Time to list media associated with data
protection operations up to the specified date and time range.
Use the Browse Data Before box to specify the end date and time.
- Click Advanced and then click Exclude Data Before and
then select the date and time from which you wish to list media
associated with data protection operations.
Note that you can use the Specify Browse Time and Exclude Data
Before options to list media between a specified date and time range.
- Click List Media.
- From the
List Media
dialog box, click List Media for restore within specified time range and
click OK.
The appropriate media is listed in the
Media
dialog box.
List Media Associated with Index
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To
list
media associated with Index:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the backup set or instance for which you wish to
list media, click All Tasks and then click Browse.
- From the Browse Options
dialog box, if required, select the following options:
- Click Browse the Latest Data to list media associated with
the most recent data protection cycle.
- Click Specify Browse Time to list media associated with data
protection operations up to the specified date and time range.
Use the Browse Data Before box to specify the end date and time.
- Click Advanced and then click Exclude Data Before and
then select the date and time from which you wish to list media
associated with data protection operations.
Note that you can use the Specify Browse Time and Exclude Data
Before options to list media between a specified date and time range.
- Click List Media.
- From the
List Media
dialog box, click List Media containing index required for browse and
click OK.
The appropriate media is listed in the
Media
dialog box.
Note that this dialog box, by default, only lists media when the index is
not available in the index cache. Select the Show all media containing index
option to view information on whether the index is available in the index
cache.
List Media (Precise) for Specific Files and/or Folders
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To
list media for specific files and/or folders:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the backup set or instance for which you wish to
list media, click All Tasks and then click Browse.
- Select the appropriate options for browsing data from the Browse Options
and Advanced Browse
Options
dialog box and then click OK.
- From the browse window, depending on your requirement, perform any
one of the following:
- Expand the tree and select the file and or folders that you wish to
restore and then click List Media.
- If you wish to search and restore a specific file or specific set of
files, use the Find option as described in
Find a File/Directory/Object.
The results are displayed in the lower pane of the Find window.
Right-click the desired file or folder and then choose List Media.
- If you wish to restore a specific version(s) of a file, use the View
All Versions option as described in
Browse and Restore File
Versions.
The results are displayed in the File Version
Restore / All Versions dialog box.
Right-click the desired version of the file and then choose List
Media.
- From the
List Media dialog box, choose one of the following options:
- Choose the Run Now option, to immediately display the media
list in the
Media
dialog box.
- Choose the Schedule option, to schedule the list media
operation and then type (or browse and select) the file name (including
the path) in which the results from the scheduled operation must be
saved in the Result file location on CommServe box.
If necessary, you can configure an alert for the operation by selecting
the Configure Alert option.
Click OK.
Select the appropriate schedule from the
Schedule
Details dialog box and then click OK.
The results of the scheduled operation are stored in the specified file.
- The List Media results provide a list of associated media and,
detailed media and data information including the total space required (on
destination disk) to restore selected data. The results from an immediate
run are displayed on Media dialog box and
Media Prediction
report, however the scheduled results are available only in
Media Prediction
report located under AlertAttachments folder in the installation
directory.
List Media for specific Jobs
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To
list
media for specific jobs:
-
Right-click the backup set for which you wish to list media, click All Tasks
and then click Restore by Jobs.
- If necessary, select the necessary options in the
Restore by Jobs filter dialog box. Click OK.
- In the
Backup Job History dialog box, right-click the job for which you wish to
list media and then click Restore.
- In the
General
tab of the Restore Options dialog box, click List Media.
The appropriate media is listed in the
Media
dialog box.
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