Browse
provides an easy-to-use convenience to search and restore data.
You can open
the browse window from client, agent, or subclient level. The sub levels displayed
in the browse window is based on where you start the browse operation.
The browse window displays objects 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.
Note that the window displays only the data that was obtained by a backup. 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.
Browse and Restore from the CommCell Console allows you browse and restore mailboxes and mailbox items that were backed up. The browse option can also be invoked from the
client, agent, backup set, or subclient level.
By default, when a browse operation is requested, the software attempts to
browse from the storage policy copy with the lowest copy precedence. If the data
that you want to browse was already pruned from the primary copy, the software
searches the other copies of the storage policy, starting from the copy with the
lowest copy precedence to a copy with the highest copy precedence.
This feature is useful in the following conditions:
The media containing protected data for a particular copy has been
removed from the storage library, you can choose to browse from a copy whose
media are inside the library.
Allows browsing from a copy that accesses faster disk media rather than
slower tape media.
When media drives used by a particular copy are busy with another
operation, this helps in browsing from a different copy to avoid resource
conflicts.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers |<Client>.
Right-click the Exchange Database and click All
Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
From the
Browse Options dialog box, click Advanced.
In the Advanced Browse Options dialog box select the Browse from copy
precedence option.
If you specify a copy precedence number for a browse operation, the software
searches only the storage policy copy with that precedence number in all storage policies
used for securing the data. If data does not exist in
the specified copy, the browse operation fails even if the data exists in
another copy of the same storage policy.
Specify the precedence number in Copy Precedence.
Click OK in the Advanced Browse Options dialog box.
List media option is useful to predict media required to restore the index
required to browse data. This is useful when the index is not available in the
index cache.
The following section describes how to perform this operation.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers |
<Client> | Exchange Database.
Right-click the subclient for which you wish
to list media in the right pane and then click List Media.
From the List Media dialog box choose one of the following options:
Click Media For the Latest Data to list media associated with
the most recent data protection cycle.
Click Specify Time Range to list media associated with data protection
operations up to the specified date and time range.
Use the Data Before box to specify the end date and time.
Click Advanced and then click Exclude Data Before to list
media associated with data protection operations after the specified date
and time.
You can use the Specify Browse Time and Exclude Data
Before options to list media between a specified date and time range.
Click OK.
The appropriate media is listed in the Media dialog box.
Data can be restored from any compatible library and drive type in the
CommCell. By default, the system automatically identifies and restores data from
any configured library in the CommCell, even if the media is not available in
the original library in which the data protection operation was performed. Use
this procedure to Browse using a specific MediaAgent.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers |<Client>.
Right-click the Exchange Database and click All
Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
From the Browse Options dialog box, choose the MediaAgent
that must be used to perform the browse.
The One-pass Restore feature provides a performance-enhancing solution for
conducting non-VSS restores of data from backups on tape. A traditional Browse
offers the granular selection of one store within a storage group, without
forcing all stores within that storage group to be selected for restore. Browse
for One-pass Restore restricts the Browse window such that all stores within a
storage group must be selected for One-pass Restore.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers |
<Client> | Exchange Database.
Right-click the Exchange Database and click All
Tasks | Browse for One-pass Restore.
