The following procedure can be used to browse data from the client, agent, instance, backup set,
replication set, or subclient level, depending on the functionality
of a given agent.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the level whose data you want to
browse, click All Tasks, and then click the Browse/Browse Backup
Data option from that level.
From the Browse Options
dialog box,
click OK to execute the browse using the Browse the Latest Data option.
The following procedure can be used to browse data from the client, agent, instance, backup set,
replication set, or subclient level, depending on the functionality
of a given agent.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the level whose data you want to
browse, click All Tasks, and then click the Browse option from that level.
From the Browse Options dialog box,
select the Specify Browse Time option and then select the date and
time to which you wish to view the data in the browse window.
Change the time zone for the specified date and time, if necessary.
Click the Advanced button.
In the Advanced Browse Options
dialog box select the Exclude
Data Before option and then select the date and
time from which you wish to view the data in the browse window.
Click OK in the Advanced Browse Options dialog box.
Click OK in the Browse Options dialog box to execute the browse.
You can browse the data available in a
synchronous or selective storage policy copy. This option is useful in situations where you
wish to browse from a specific media or if a particular MediaAgent is currently
unavailable. Once you have browsed the data from a copy, you can then recover
the data from that copy. The option to browse/restore data from specific copies is not available for all the
agents.
In the Advanced Browse Options dialog box select the Browse from
copy precedence option.
Specify the precedence number in Copy Precedence.
Click OK in the Advanced Browse Options dialog box.
Click OK in the Browse Options dialog box to execute the browse.
The Backup Data browse window appears.
From the Backup Data browse window, select the objects that you want to restore, and then
click Recover All Selected. The Restore Options
dialog box appears.
From the Restore Options dialog box, select the desired restore options. If
desired, click Advanced to choose additional restore options.
Click OK from the Restore Options dialog box to begin the restore
operation.
While the job is running you can right-click the job in the Job Controller
and select Detail... to view information on the job. After the data has
been recovered, you will see a job completion message in the Job Controller
and Event Viewer.
NOTES
All Agents
It is recommended that the storage policy copy that is used in the
browse operation is the same storage policy copy from which a restore
operation is initiated.
For those agents that support Point In Time restores, you can determine the time
to use by following the procedures in this step. From the CommCell Browser single-click the
storage policy
that has the selective copy created for it. You will see a list of storage
policy copies displayed in the right-pane of the CommCell Browser. From the
right-pane, right-click on the selective copy then select View Backups from
the short cut menu. On the Backups for Copy window look at the end time
for the specific backup you want to restore from, to determine the time to
use for a Point In Time restore. Click Close to exit this window.
The browse window displays data objects such as files,
folders, databases, mailbox, etc. and consists of two parts:
The left pane displays the object tree at the selected
level.
The right pane displays the contents of the selected object tree.
Note that the window displays only the data that was obtained by a data protection
operation. Data
that is excluded by a filter, or data which did not exist as of the
specified browse time does not appear in the window.
Selections follow these rules:
All
selections are recursive.
Clicking a box again causes the selection to be cleared.
If you select an object in the left pane, then all of its contents are selected.
You can select a specific object in the right pane.
Selection status is revealed by the selection icons as follows:
Indicates that the object is not selected for restoration.
Indicates that a portion of the object is selected for restoration.
i.e., only some of the child object(s) within the selected object.
Indicates that the entire object, including all of its
child objects, are selected for restoration.
The buttons in this dialog box include the following:
Recover All Selected
Provides access to the Restore Options dialog box which allows you to control how the
selected data must be restored.
New Browse
Provides access to the Browse Options dialog box which allows you to re-browse with new browse settings.
To browse the
latest data:
