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:

1. Begin any restore procedure. See Basic Restore or Browse and Restore for step-by-step instructions.
2. 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).
3. 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.)

   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.

4. Optionally select the additional restore options that you want to use from the Advanced Restore Options dialog box.
5. Click OK.
6. Optionally select the additional restore options that you want to use from the Restore Options dialog box.
7. Click OK.
8. 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.