Recovery- 1-Touch for AIX

Deployment Configuration Recovery FAQ Troubleshooting

Table of Contents

Basic Recovery

Advanced Recovery

Restoring Data Backed Up Before a Specific Date

Changing the Priority of the Restore Job

Starting the Restore Job in Suspended State

Restoring From a Copy Precedence

Restoring From a Specific Data Path

Basic Recovery

1. Login to CommCell Console using CommCell credentials.
Do not use domain credentials to login to CommCell. The single sign on is not supported for 1-Touch feature.

 

  
2.
  • From the CommCell Console, navigate to <Client> | File System iDataAgent | defaultBackupSet. 
  • Right-click the Default Backup Set and click All Tasks | 1-Touch Recovery.
3.
  • Select the backup job for recovering the operating system.
  • Click Next.
4. Click Next.
5.
  • Review the recovery options.
  • Click Finish.

Advanced Recovery

When AIX operating system is not running or if additional manual steps are required on the client, you have to manually perform the network boot for the client.

1.
  • From the CommCell Console, navigate to <Client> | File System iDataAgent | defaultBackupSet. 
  • Right-click the Default Backup Set and click All Tasks | 1-Touch Recovery.
2.
  • Select the backup job for recovering the operating system.
  • Click Next.
3.
  • Do not select Automatic Client Reboot.
  • Click Next.
4.
  • Review the recovery options.
  • Click Finish.
5. Wait for the 1-Touch recovery job to complete restoring mksysb to the NIM master.  
6.

If the client is running operating system you can perform any necessary steps required on client computer.

If the client doesn’t have the operating system, connect it to the network and switch power ON.

  •  Navigate to the SMS menu
  • Configure network interface if required to use the NIM master server.
  • Boot the client computer using network interface.
  • If Restore Data option is selected, a new restore job will be automatically started.
  • After the client computer reboot and the restore job are complete, verify if the client is up and services are running.
  • Check connectivity from the CommCell Console.
  • Clean up the NIM master server.
  

Restoring Data Backed Up before a Specific date

You can perform a point-in-time restore of the system state. You can recover data from a backup that occurred before the specified date and time.

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to <Client> | File System iDataAgent | defaultBackupSet. 
  2. Right-click the defaultBackupSet and click All Tasks | 1-Touch Recovery.
  3. In the Submit 1-Touch Recovery Request dialog box, click Select Recovery Options.
  4. Click Restore data from the backup that occurred before this date.
  5. Enter date and time.
  6. Select a Time Zone.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Click Finish.

Changing the Priority of the Restore Job

You can increase the priority of a restore job. If you want to perform the 1-Touch recovery on a high priority, follow the steps given below:

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to <Client> | File System iDataAgent | defaultBackupSet. 
  2. Right-click the defaultBackupSet and click All Tasks | 1-Touch Recovery.
  3. In the Submit 1-Touch Recovery Request dialog box, click Select Recovery Options.
  4. Click Advanced.
  5. Click Change Priority.
  6. Enter the priority number between 0 to 999. Lower the number, higher the priority.
  7. Click Ok.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Click Finish.

Starting the Restore Job in Suspended State

If there are multiple jobs running simultaneously on the CommServe, you can hold  the restore job on suspended state. Once the CommServe is freed up, you can resume the restore job from the Job Controller window.

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to <Client> | File System iDataAgent | defaultBackupSet. 
  2. Right-click the defaultBackupSet and click All Tasks | 1-Touch Recovery.
  3. In the Submit 1-Touch Recovery Request dialog box, click Select Recovery Options.
  4. Click Advanced.
  5. Click Startup in suspended state
  6. Click Ok.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Click Finish.

Restoring Data from a Copy Precedence

By default, 1-Touch recovery will restore the data from the primary copy. But if you want to restore data from a particular storage policy copy, you can specify the copy precedence.

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to <Client> | File System iDataAgent | defaultBackupSet. 
  2. Right-click the defaultBackupSet and click All Tasks | 1-Touch Recovery.
  3. In the Submit 1-Touch Recovery Request dialog box, click Select Recovery Options.
  4. Click Advanced.
  5. Click Copy Precedence.
  6. Click Restore from copy precedence.
  7. Enter the copy precedence number.
  8. Click Ok.
  9. Click Next.
  10. Click Finish.

Restoring Data from a specific data path

If you want to restore the data from a specific location on a MediaAgent, you can specify the data path as follows:

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to <Client> | File System iDataAgent | defaultBackupSet. 
  2. Right-click the defaultBackupSet and click All Tasks | 1-Touch Recovery.
  3. In the Submit 1-Touch Recovery Request dialog box, click Select Recovery Options.
  4. Click Advanced.
  5. Click Data Path.
  6. Select the following to specify the data path:
    • Use MediaAgent
    • Use Library
    • Use Drive Pool
    • Use Drive
    • Use Proxy
  7. Click Ok.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Click Finish.