Restore Options (General)

Use this dialog box to control how the specified data is to be restored.

Restore ACLs

For NetApp NAS NDMP iDataAgent, specifies whether the restore operation restores the files with Access Control Lists (ACLs). Note that only files that were backed up with ACLs can be restored with ACLs.

Use Direct Access Restore

Specifies whether the restore operation searches only for the specified files and then restore each one separately as an individual restore job. Select this option to restore smaller amounts of data faster. Note that when dealing with a large number of files, this option is not faster.

Restore Destination

• Destination Client/Computer/Server

  Displays the name of the client computer to which the selected data will be restored. To change the destination computer, select one from the list. The list includes clients:

  • Which are established as clients within the CommCell.
  • Clients with Operating Systems that support the cross-platform restore operation from this client. (Refer to the topic titled Cross Platform Restore Operations in Books Online for additional information.)

  By default, data is restored to the same computer from which it was backed up.

• Restore/Recover to Same Paths

  Specifies whether the restore operation will restore data to the same path from which it was backed up in the Destination Computer. (Clear this option to restore to a different path and activate the Destination folder box.)

  For NetApp NAS NDMP iDataAgent, this option will be unavailable, if a non-NetApp file system client is selected as the Destination Computer.

• Destination folder

  Use this space to enter the path on the destination computer to which the data will be restored. If the specified path does not exist, it  will be created during the restore process.

  Ensure that the specified path is within an existing volume.

• Browse

  Click to select a path for the Destination folder.

Preserve Source Paths

Specifies the action taken when the data is recovered to another destination. The options are available only when the Recover to Same Paths option is cleared.

• Preserve n levels from end of source path

  Specifies whether the recovery operation must keep the specified number of levels at the end of source path of the selected data. For example, if the selected data is Documents\Memos\Sales, this option is set to 1 and the Destination folder is temp, the data will be recovered as \temp\Sales.

  However, if this option is used to restore a file in a path that contains any valid wildcard expression (e.g., Documents\**\Sales), the default value of 1 for the option cannot be changed. Therefore, only the last found occurrence of the file is recovered, and the recovered data for all the other occurrences of the file are overwritten.

• Remove n levels from beginning of source path

  Specifies whether the recovery operation must remove the specified number of levels from the beginning of source path of the selected data. For example, if the selected data is Documents\Memos\Sales, this option is set to 1 and the Destination folder is \temp, the data will be recovered as \temp\Sales. (This option becomes available only when the Restore to Same Paths option is cleared.)

Advanced

Click to select additional restore options.

Save As Script

Click to open the Save As Script dialog, which allows you to save this operation and the selected options as a script file (in XML format). The script can later be executed from the Command Line Interface using qoperation execute command.

When you save an operation as a script, each option in the dialog will have a corresponding xml parameter in the script file. When executing the script, you can modify the value for any of these XML parameters as per need.

To view the XML values for each of the options in the dialog, see the following:

Command Line XML Options

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