Restore Data - NAS NDMP Clients - How To

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Perform a File System NDMP Restore (NetApp and EMC Celerra only)

Perform Three Way Restore

Perform Direct Access Restore

Perform a VBB Full Destructive Restore (EMC Celerra only)

Perform a File System NDMP Restore

Before you begin

• Review the general and agent-specific restore requirements accessed from Restore Backup Data prior to performing any restore.
• Review the overview material provided in File System NDMP Restore Enabler.
• This procedure applies to NAS NDMP NetApp and EMC Celerra only.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To restore data using a three-way restore:

1. Begin a Browse and Restore procedure.
2. From the Restore Options (General) dialog box, select the name of the file system client from the Destination Computer list. You are required to enter a destination folder, and you can use the browse feature to select this folder on the destination computer.
   NOTE: Keep in mind that file system clients will only appear in the list if they have the File System NDMP Restore Enabler installed.
3. Continue with the restore procedure.

Perform Three Way Restore

Before you begin

• Review the general and agent-specific restore requirements accessed from Restore Backup Data prior to performing any restore.
• Verify the destination NAS data server is a client in the CommCell.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To restore data using a three-way restore:

1. Begin a Browse and Restore procedure.
2. From the Restore Options (General) dialog box, select the name of the destination NAS data server from the Destination Computer list. Keep in mind that the list contains the names of all NAS NDMP clients that are installed in the CommCell.
3. Continue with the restore procedure.

Perform Direct Access Restore

Before you begin

• Review the general and agent-specific restore requirements accessed from Restore Backup Data prior to performing any restore.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To restore data using a direct access restore:

1. Begin a Browse and Restore procedure.
2. From the Restore Options (General) dialog box, select the Use Direct Access Restore check box.
3. Continue with the restore procedure.

Perform a VBB Full Destructive Restore

Before you begin

• Review the general and agent-specific restore requirements accessed from Restore Backup Data prior to performing any restore.
• The full backup that will be restored must have been created with the Volume-Based Backup advanced backup option. 
• Review the overview material provided in VBB Full Destructive Restore.
• This procedure applies to EMC Celerra only.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To restore data using a VBB-enabled full backup on a Celerra file server:

1. Create a raw file system (rawfs) on the Celerra file server. Please see your vendor documentation for details.
2. Begin a Browse and Restore procedure to the last full backup and select the root of a volume.
3. Run an Out-of-place Restore and specify a path such as /.celerra_vol_1078 where 1078 matches the volume name from the nas_fs-list command for that file system.

   Ensure that Direct Access Restore (DAR) restore option is not selected.

4. After the restore completes, bring the volume online to a usable state. This can  be set by modifying the file system to a usable type.
5. To restore incremental backups, browse in time to just before the first Incremental backup was created (after the last Full backup) and just after the last Incremental backup was created. See Browse Data Between a Specified Time for step-by-step instructions.
6. Select the root of the volume and perform an Out-of-place Restore of the incremental backup to the raw file system that was created in Step 1. This restores the incremental backup on top of this file system.