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The following page describes the agent-specific restore options. Additional restore options are accessible from the Related Topics menu.
Workstation Backup Agent supports restoring contents of the backup job at the file level. Backup data can be browsed for file level contents and individual files can be selected for restore. The Workstation Backup Agent supports the following restore options:
Workstation Backup restores can be performed from the Workstation Backup Client Console, as well as the CommCell Console at the replication set level. The following sections explain restore operations initiated from the CommCell Console. See Workstation Backup Client Console for discussions on restore operations from the Workstation Backup Client.
Data objects that have been deleted by orphan file processing can be restored. Deleted objects can be restored from the live copy until a recovery point is created. Once recovery points are created, the objects can be restored from the corresponding recovery points. For convenience, objects that were deleted one hour before the last recovery point creation are available in the live copy for restore.
Note that deleted objects are not copied to tape when the recovery points are moved to tape. So orphan data can be restored from the live data or recovery points, but not from tapes.
The Workstation Backup Agent restores data to the same client computer from which the backup data originated; this is referred to as in-place restore. You can also restore data to a different client in the CommCell, also known as out-of-place restores.
The following section enumerates the types of restore destinations that are supported by the Workstation Backup Agent.
Keep in mind the following considerations when performing restores:
See Restore/Recover/Retrieve Destinations - Support for a list of Agents supporting each restore destination type.
Data can be restored in one of the following ways:
When the data to be restored is present either in the live backup copy at the destination, or in one of the Recovery Points available in the destination computer, the restore operations can be performed using the browse and restore procedure from the Workstation Backup Client. In this case, data can be restored either from the Client Console by the user, or from the CommCell Console by the administrator.
See Restore Data - Workstation Backup - How To for the restore procedure.
If the Recovery Point from which the data must be restored is not available in the destination, but backed up to a storage media, then administrator must restore the data from the backup location, and then provide it to the corresponding user. Note that in such a scenario, the user cannot restore the data directly.
The backup of Recovery Points or Consistent Recovery Points is performed using the Windows File System iDataAgent, which is also used to perform restore operations. For more information about restoring from a backup, see Restore Data - Windows File Systems.