Recover Data - File Archiver Unix Agent - How To
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Related Topics
Recovering Data
Recover a File from the CommCell Console
Recover a File / Multiple Files from a Unix Terminal Window
Set Stub Recovery Parameters
Recovery Destinations
Recover Out-of-Place or Cross-Platform
Recover to a Network Drive/NFS-Mounted File System
Recover a File from the CommCell Console
Before You Begin
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To
recover a file from the CommCell Console:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the agent, backup set, or subclient whose data you want to
browse, click All Tasks (if displayed), and then click the desired Browse
option.
- From the Browse Options
dialog box, select the browse options that you want to use.
- If specifying a browse time, click Advanced for the Advanced Browse Options.
- From the Browse window, select the file(s) you want to
recover, then click Recover All Selected.
- Click New Browse to initiate a fresh browse window. Use new browse
option settings if desired.
- To search for a particular file, refer to
Find a File/Directory/Object for instructions.
- From the Restore/Recover Options (General) and
Job
Initiation
tabs, select the desired recovery options.
- When restoring encrypted data, refer to
Data Encryption.
- Click Advanced to select advanced recovery options for the job.
- Click OK on the Recover Options
dialog box.
- A recovery job is started for the selected data and indicates its status in the Job
Controller window.
- When the recovery has completed, a confirmation message will be displayed in the
Job Controller window.
Recover a File from a Unix Terminal Window
Before You Begin:
Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To perform a non-browse recovery of a file from a Unix terminal or console window:
- Log on to the client computer.
- Open a Terminal or Console Window.
- Perform an action that executes an open and read on an archived file to initiate the recovery operation. For example, you can use the vi or cat commands to do this:
- vi <path><filename>
- cat <path><filename>
- The recovery job is submitted to the Job Controller, and you can track the status of the job from the Job Controller window in the CommCell Console.
Before You Begin
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To set
stub recovery parameters:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the appropriate agent icon and then click
Properties.
- From the General
tab of the Agent Properties dialog box, click the Stub Recovery Parameters
option.
- Select the appropriate value for the Maximum Stub Recovery field.
- Select the appropriate value for the Time between recall to count as
successive in seconds field.
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The interval value for FPolicy, NAS data, and Celerra should be set to
200 for complete Recall Throttling effect. |
- Select the appropriate value for the Time to wait after maximum
successive recalls limit is reached in seconds field.
- Click OK, then either wait 5 minutes for the change to take
effect or restart the GXHSM service for it to take effect immediately.
Restore Out-of-Place, Cross-Platform or Cross-Application
Before You Begin
- Review the general and agent-specific restore requirements accessed from
Restore Backup Data prior to performing any
restore operation.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To
browse and restore data:
- Begin any restore procedure. See
Basic Restore or
Browse and Restore for step-by-step instructions.
- From the agent's Restore Options dialog box, select the restore
destination:
- Destination Computer - By default, data is restored to the same
computer from which it was backed up. To change the destination computer,
select one from the list. The list includes established clients within the CommCell, with Operating Systems that support the
out-of-place, cross-platform, or cross-application restore operation from this client.
- Restore to Same Paths - Specifies whether the restore operation must restore data to the Destination Computer
using the same path from which it was backed up. Clear this option if you want to restore
to a different path and activate the Destination
folder box.
- Destination Folder - Use this space to enter (or browse to) the path on the destination computer to which the data
must be restored. If the specified path does not exist, it will be created during the restore process.
On Windows computers,
the UNC path of a shared
drive can be specified. (e.g., \\servername\sharename\directory).
Deselect Restore to Same Paths and then type the UNC path of the shared drive in the
Destination Folder field.
- After completing your selections, continue with the restore procedure.
Recover Out-of-Place or Cross-Platform
Before You Begin
- Review the general and agent-specific recovery requirements accessed from
Recover Archived Data prior to performing any
recovery operation.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To
browse and recover data:
- Begin a browse and recovery procedure from the CommCell Console. See
Recover a File from the CommCell Console for step-by-step instructions.
- From the agent's Recover Options dialog box, select the recovery destination:
- Destination Computer - By default, data is recovered to the same
computer from which it was archived. To change the destination computer,
select one from the list. The list includes established clients within the CommCell, with Operating Systems that support the
out-of-place or cross-platform recovery operation from this client.
- Recover to Same Paths - Specifies whether the recovery operation must recover data to the Destination Computer
using the same path from which it was archived. Clear this option if you want to recover
to a different path and activate the Destination
folder box.
- Destination Folder - Use this space to enter (or browse to) the path on the destination computer to which the data
must be recovered. If the specified path does not exist, it will be created during the recovery process.
On Windows computers,
the UNC path of a shared
drive can be specified. (e.g., \\servername\sharename\directory).
Deselect Recover to Same Paths and then type the UNC path of the shared drive in the
Destination Folder field.
- After completing your selections, continue with the recovery procedure.
Restore to a Network Drive/NFS-Mounted File System
Before You Begin:
- On Windows computers, shared network drives exist as Windows share
directories (i.e., shares) on some other computer on the network. For data
security reasons, these shares possess access privileges that determine who
can access the share and the rights under which access is permitted. If your
Windows account does not have privileges to write data to the share, you must
be prepared to provide the login and password of a Windows account that does
have these privileges.
- For Unix computers, ensure that the destination computer has root permissions for the NFS-mounted
file system. If the destination computer does not have these
permissions, restores will fail.
- Ensure that the network drive / mounted file system to which you intend to restore the data is accessible as
a mapped network drive/ NFS-mounted file system from the destination computer.
- Review the general and agent-specific restore requirements accessed from Restore Backup Data prior to performing any restore operation.
Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To browse and restore data using wildcards:
- Begin any restore procedure. See
Basic Restore or
Browse and Restore for step-by-step instructions.
- From the Restore Options dialog box, ensure that the Destination Computer is the source computer
from which the shared drive was backed up, not the computer that has the share. If the data did
not originate from the shared drive, de-select Restore to Same Paths
and then type the UNC path of the shared drive in
the Destination Folder field (e.g.,
\\servername\sharename\directory).
- To restore to a Windows computer, click Advanced.
If you do not have Change permissions for the share to which you intend to restore the
data, then you must select Impersonate NT User in the Advanced Restore
Options dialog box and provide the login and password of a Windows
account that does have these permissions. (Otherwise, the data cannot be
restored to the selected share. Ordinarily, if you can copy or create a
file in the share, you should be able to restore data to that share without
having to select this option.)
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If the user account is established as a domain user
account, you must enter a fully qualified user name (e.g.,
<domain_name>\<user_name>) and password. |
- Optionally select the additional restore options that you want to use from the
Advanced
Restore Options dialog box.
- Click OK.
- Optionally select the additional restore options that you want to use from the
Restore
Options dialog box.
- Click OK.
- After completing your selections, you can either start an immediate
restore or schedule the restore.
- If you want to schedule the job, click the
Job Initiation
tab from the Restore Options dialog box, click Schedule, and enter your selections in the Schedule Details
(Schedule Details) dialog box. Clicking OK from this dialog box
saves your schedule. See
Scheduled Data Recovery
Operations for an overview of this feature.
- If you want to run the job now, accept or click Run Immediately
in the same tab and then click OK.
While the job is running, you can right-click the job in the Job Controller
and select Detail to view information on the job.
NOTES
- The restored data assumes the access characteristics of the destination
share.
- In the case of a File Level restore using the Image-Level iDataAgent,
the restored data assumes the access characteristics of the destination share.
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