Advanced Restore - NAS iDataAgent

Table of Contents

Performing a Direct Restore

Performing a Direct Access Restore

Performing an Out-of-Place Restore

Restoring to Different Volume/Folder on the Same File Server

Restoring to a Different File Server

Restoring to a Client

Restoring Data Using a Map File

Creating a Map File

Adding Files and Folders with Unicode Characters to a Map File

Restoring Using a Map File

Restoring Deleted Files

Scheduling a Restore

Managing Restore Jobs

Restarting Jobs

Controlling Jobs

Additional NAS Features

Performing a Two-Way Restore

Performing a Three-Way Restore

Performing a Full Destructive Restore from a Volume Based Backup

Restoring from a Block Based Backup (SnapMirror to Tape)

Excluding Access Control Lists

Overwriting Restored Data

Performing a Recursive Restore

Performing an Exclusive Restore

Restoring Short File Names

Restoring User and Group Quotas

Restoring Subtree Quotas

Restoring Tree Quota Information

Additional Restore Options

Command Line Restores

Log on to the CommServe

Perform the Restore

Generate the Command Line Script from the CommCell Console

Performing a Direct Restore

Perform a direct restore in the following scenarios:

If you want to restore data from multiple volumes, perform a browse and restore.

Follow the steps given below to perform a direct restore to the same location where the data was backed up:

1.
  • From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  • Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Restore.
2. Enter the path of the data you want to restore in the Restore Path field.
3. Click OK.
4. You can track the progress of the job from the Job Controller window.

Performing a Direct Access Restore

Direct Access restores optimize the restore operations by allowing the file server to directly access the backed up data anywhere in the media without having to traverse the media sequentially. By default, all restore operations use the direct access restore process.

It is recommended to perform a direct access restore if the data to be restored is less than 30-40% of the backup. For example, if you are restoring 25-30 files from a backup that contains 100 files, you can use this option. However, it is recommended to disable this option when you restore a major portion of the backup.

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. Click OK.
  1. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  2. Ensure that the Use Direct Access Restore option is selected.
  3. Click OK.

Performing An Out-of-Place Restore

You can restore the data to the following locations:

Restoring to Different Volume/Folder on the Same File Server

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. Click OK.
  1. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  2. Clear the Restore to same folder checkbox.
  3. Click Browse to locate the destination path and click OK.
  4. Use the options in the Preserve Source Paths area to exclude folders (and its contents) from the source path.
    For Example: If the selected data is vol/Data/Memos/Sales, and you want to restore data only from the Sales folder, set the Preserve <n> level from end of source path option to 1.

    If the selected data is vol/Data/Memos/Sales, and you want to restore the data from Memos and Sales folders, set the Remove <n> level from beginning of source path option to 2.

  1. Click OK.
  

Restoring to a Different File Server

You can restore data to a different file server of the same type as the source file server. For example:

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. Click OK.
  1. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  2. Select the file server from the Destination client drop-down list.
  3. Click OK.

Restoring to a Client

In order to restore data to a Windows or Unix client, you need to install the File System Restore Enabler software on the computer where you want the data to be restored. See the File System Restore Enabler documentation for a comprehensive list of steps required to perform this type of restore.

Restoring Data Using a Map File

You can restore individual files and folders to different locations using a map file containing a list of files to be restored, with their corresponding restore paths.

Creating a Map File

The map file is a text file in the CSV (Command Separated Value) format.  Follow the steps given below to create a map file:

  1. Create a text file on the client computer where you want to restore the data.
  2. Add the mapping information in the file in the following format:

    "<source path>","<destination path>"

The specified paths for both the source and destination should be absolute paths within the same client computer. (Computer names or UNC paths should not be used in the source and destination names.)

You can provide following information in a map file:

Information

Example
File to File mapping "vol1/dir1/file1.txt","vol2/dir2/file1.txt"
Folder to Folder mappings "vol1/dir2","vol2/dir2"
Drive to Drive mappings "vol1/","vol2/"
Renaming files/folder "vol1/dir4/file2.txt","vol2/dir5/file3.txt"
Filtering files "vol/dir5",""

Adding Files and Folders with Unicode Characters to a Map File

If the path or the filename contains Unicode characters, the Map File must be converted to a format that can be used by the data protection operation. The Unicode Conversion utility must be used to convert the Map File to a format that can be provided as input.

  1. Using a text editor, create a file that contains a list of files/folders with Unicode characters. Make sure to save the file as a Unicode text file.
  2. From the Command Line, navigate to the <software install folder>/base folder and type the following:

    cvconvertunicode <source file> <destination file>

    Where:

    <source file> is the full path and name of the file created in Step 1.

    <destination file> is the full path and name of the destination file. The file will automatically be created by the utility.

  1. Use the destination file as the Map File to perform the restore.

Restoring Using a Map File

Perform a direct restore to provide a map file containing the list of files to be restored and the destination where the files will be restored.

  1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Restore.
  3. Select Restore from file and enter the location of the map file.

    You can also click Browse to locate the appropriate map file.

  4. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click OK.

Restoring Deleted Files

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. Click OK.
  1. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  1. Click Advanced.
  2. Select the Browse Options tab.
  3. Select the Restore deleted items check box and then select the Specify Time Range check box.
  4. Select the time range to restore the files, deleted in that period of time.
  5. In the Advanced Recover Options dialog box, click OK.
  6. In the Recover Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click OK.

Command Line Restores

You can restore NAS data from the command line interface.

Command line restores enable you to perform restore operations on multiple clients at the same time. It also allows you to reuse the command line scripts for additional restores.

When performing command line restores, note that backups taken from the CommCell Console can be restored using Command Line and vice versa. However, backups taken from a previous version of the CommCell Console can be restored only from the Command Line.

In order to run the restores from command line, you need an input xml file which contains the parameters for configuring the restore options. This input xml file can be obtained using one of the following ways:

Log on to the Commserve

To run command line operations you must first login to the CommServe as follows:

Perform the Restore

  1. Download the restore_template.xml file and save it on the computer from where the command will be executed.
  2. Execute the saved xml script using qoperation execute command.

    qoperation execute -af restore_template.xml clientName xxxxx -sourceItem 'xxxxx'

  1. Verify the status of the job using the following command:

    qlist job –j JOBID

  2. Once the job completes, logout from the CommServe using the qlogout command.

    qlogout [-cs commserver] [-all] [-tf tokenfile] [-tk token] [-h]

Examples

Restoring Data to Original Location

qoperation execute -af restore_template.xml -clientName client1 -sourceItem '/vol/vol1'
Restoring Data to a Point in Time qoperation execute -af restore_template.xml -clientName client1 -toTimeValue '2011-11-28 15:40:00' -sourceItem '/vol/vol1'

Generate the Command Line Script from the CommCell Console

In addition to the parameters provided in the template xml file, if you want to include additional options for the restore, you can do so by selecting the required options from the CommCell Console and generate the command line xml script for the restore operation.

Follow the steps given below to generate a script which you can use to perform a restore from the command line interface:

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. Click OK.
  1. In the right pane of the Browse window, select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  2. Select the required restore options which you want to execute using the script.
  3. Click Save as Script.
  1. Enter the location where you want to save the script or click Browse and navigate to the location.

    The script will be saved as a .xml file and a .bat file is created.

    If a file with the same name already exists in the specified location, the .xml file will be created with a timestamp. However, the .bat file will overwrite the existing file.

  2. Enter the username and password for the user account which you want to use to perform the restore.

    By default, the user account which you have used to login to CommCell console is used for performing the restore. However, if the user account does not have access to application and database, click Use a different account.

  3. Click OK.

Scheduling A restore

Follow the steps given below to schedule a restore job:

1.
  • From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  • Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  • Click OK.
2.
  • Expand the backup set node in the left pane. Select the volume containing the data you want to restore.
  • Click Recover All Selected.
3.
  • Clear the Restore to same folder checkbox.
  • Specify the destination path by clicking Browse.
  • Click OK.
4.
  • Click the Job Initiation tab and click Schedule.
  • Click Configure.
5. Select the appropriate scheduling options. For example:
  • Click Weekly.
  • Select the date and time to run the restore job.
  • Click OK to close the Schedule Details dialog box.
  • Click OK to close the Restore Options dialog box.

The restore job will execute as per the schedule.

See Scheduling for a comprehensive information on scheduling jobs.

Managing Restore Jobs

Once you initiate the restore operation, a restore job is generated in the Job Controller. Jobs can be managed in a number of ways. See Job Management for a comprehensive information on managing jobs.

The following sections provide information on the different job management options available:

Restarting Jobs

Jobs that fail to complete successfully are automatically restarted based on the job restartability configuration set in the Control Panel. Keep in mind that changes made to this configuration will affect all jobs in the entire CommCell.

To Configure the job restartability for a specific job, you can modify the retry settings for the job. This will override the setting in the Control Panel. It is also possible to override the default CommServe configuration for individual jobs by configuring retry settings when initiating the job. This configuration, however, will apply only to the specific job.

Backup jobs for this Agent are resumed from the point-of-failure.

Configure Job Restartability at the CommServe Level

  1. From the CommCell Browser, click Control Panel icon.
  2. Select Job Management.
  3. Click Job Restarts tab and select a Job Type.
    • Select Restartable to make the job restartable.
    • Change the value for Max Restarts to change the maximum number of times the Job Manager will try to restart a job.
    • Change the value for Restart Interval (Mins) to change the time interval between attempts for the Job Manager to restart the job.
  4. Click OK.

Configure Job Restartability for an Individual Job

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. Click OK.
  1. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  1. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  2. Click the Job Retry tab.
  3. Select Enable Total Running Time and specify the maximum elapsed time before a job can be restarted or killed
  4. Select Kill Running Jobs When Total Running Time Expires to kill the job after reaching the maximum elapsed time.
  5. Click OK.
  

Controlling Jobs

The following controls are available for running jobs in the Job Controller window:

Suspend

 Temporarily stops a job. A suspended job is not terminated; it can be restarted at a later time.

Resume

 Resumes a job and returns the status to Waiting, Pending, Queued, or Running. The status depends on the availability of resources, the state of the Operation Windows, or the Activity Control setting.

Kill

 Terminates a job.

Suspending a Job

  1. From the Job Controller of the CommCell Console, right-click the job and select Suspend.
  2. The job status may change to Suspend Pending for a few moments while the operation completes. The job status then changes to Suspended.

Resuming a Job

  1. From the Job Controller of the CommCell Console, right-click the job and select Resume.
  2. As the Job Manager attempts to restart the job, the job status changes to Waiting, Pending, or Running.

Killing a Job

  1. From the Job Controller of the CommCell Console, right-click the job and select Kill.
  2. Click Yes when the confirmation prompt appears if you are sure you want to kill the job. The job status may change to Kill Pending for a few moments while the operation completes. Once completed, the job status will change to Killed and it will be removed from the Job Controller window after five minutes.

Additional NAS Features

The following sections describe the additional features available for different file servers.

Performing a Two-Way Restore

Feature Description Applies to
Two-Way Restores A two-way restore consists of restoring the data to a file server from a locally attached (or SAN-connected) library.

The following restore methods are supported:

  • Restoring to the same location on the file server from where the data was backed up.
  • Restoring to a different volume or folder on the same file server.
 BlueArc, EMC Celerra, IBM, Hitachi, Hewlett Packard, NetApp, ONStor, Sun

Performing a Three-Way Restore

Feature Description Applies to
Three-Way Restores A three-way restore consists of restoring the data to a different file server or computer. A three-way restore enables more than one file server to share a library allowing the restore of data to a file server which may not have a locally attached library.

The following restore methods are supported:

  • Restoring to a different file server
  • Restoring from a library attached to a MediaAgent
  • Restoring to a Windows or Unix computer (using File System Restore Enabler)
 BlueArc, Dell, EMC Celerra, IBM, Hitachi, Hewlett Packard, Isilon, NetApp, ONStor, Pillar Data Systems, Sun

Performing a Full Destructive Restore from a Volume Based Backup

Feature Description Applies to
VBB Full Destructive Restore A VBB full destructive restore is an out-of-place restore of a volume based backup. During this process, the last full backup of an entire volume is restored to a raw file system (rawfs) created on the file server.

Follow the steps below after running a volume based backup:

  1. Create a raw file system (rawfs) on the file server. Refer to the EMC Celerra documentation for more information.
  2. From the CommCell Console, navigate to <Client> | EMC Celerra NAS NDMP.
  3. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Select the root volume to be restored and click Recover All Selected.
  6. Clear Use Direct Access Restore and Restore to same folder.
  7. Specify the destination path such as /celerra_vol_1078 where 1078 matches the volume name from the nas_fs-list command for the raw file system.
  8. In the Preserve box, set the value to 0.
  9. Click OK.
  10. Once the restore completes, set the volume type as usable.
 EMC Celerra

Restoring from a Block Based Backup (SnapMirror to Tape)

Feature Description Applies to
SnapMirror to Tape SnapMirror to Tape restores from a block based backup. In order to perform this type of restore, you must have configured and backed up an image backup set as described in Configuring Block Based Backups.

Restoring from a block based backup is a full destructive restore because any existing data on the destination location will be overwritten.

Follow the steps below to restore from an image based backup:

  1. Ensure that the volume you are restoring from is in a restricted mode (unavailable for user level data access).
  2. From the CommCell Console, navigate to <Client> | NetApp NAS NDMP.
  3. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Select the volume to be restored and click Recover All Selected.
    You can restore data that was backed up from either 32-bit or 64-bit
    aggregates with ONTAP 8.0 to 64-bit aggregates with ONTAP 8.1 and later. However, the data must be restored to volumes that were created using an ONTAP version within two major consecutive releases of the ONTAP version that was used to back up the data.
  6. Click OK to start the restore.
 NetApp

Excluding Access Control Lists

Feature Description Applies to
Restore ACLs The ACLs are restored by default during a restore operation. To exclude ACLs from the restore, follow the steps below.
  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. Click OK.
  1. Clear the Restore ACLs checkbox.
  2. Click OK.
 NetApp, Pillar. All other vendors will restore ACLs when restoring back to the file server - there is no option to not restore ACLs.

Overwriting Restored Data

Feature Description Applies to
Overwrite By default, the data in the destination is overwritten when the restored version is newer than the one in the destination. Use this option to overwrite data irrespective of the destination version.
  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. In the Browse Options dialog box, click OK.
  4. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  5. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  1. Click the NAS Options tab.
  2. Select the Overwrite checkbox.
  3. Click OK.
 BlueArc, Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM, ONStor

Performing a Recursive Restore

Feature Description Applies to
Recursive Restore Use this option to include all files and subdirectories during the restore of a directory.
  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. In the Browse Options dialog box, click OK.
  4. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  5. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  1. Click the NAS Options tab.
  2. Select the Recursive Restore checkbox.
  3. Click OK.
 EMC Celerra, Hitachi

Performing an Exclusive Restore

Feature Description Applies to
Exclusive Restore Use this option to prevent simultaneous execution of multiple backup or restore operations on the same volume. This is useful as it avoids possible data inconsistency which can be caused by the following operations on the same volume:
  • running a backup operation during restore processing
  • running a restore operation during backup processing
  • running another restore operation during restore processing
  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. In the Browse Options dialog box, click OK.
  4. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  5. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  1. Click the NAS Options tab.
  2. Select the Exclusive Restore checkbox.
  3. Click OK.
 Hitachi

Restoring Short File Names

Feature Description Applies to
Restore Enable 8.3 Names You can use this option to restore file names from media. When this option is enabled, any short file name that was backed up is restored. If a naming conflict occurs, the file server uses a new file name.

When disabled, a file name is generated by the file system, which can result in a name that is different from the backed up file.

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. In the Browse Options dialog box, click OK.
  4. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  5. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  1. Click the NAS Options tab.
  2. Select Yes for Restore Enable 8.3 Names.
  3. Click OK.
 ONStor

Restoring User and Group Quotas

Feature Description Applies to
Restore User and Group Quotas You can use this option to restore user and group quotas. When this option is disabled, the tree (hierarchical) quota records are restored, ignoring user or group quotas.
  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. In the Browse Options dialog box, click OK.
  4. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  5. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  1. Click the NAS Options tab.
  2. Select Yes for Restore User and Group Quotas.
  3. Click OK.
 ONStor

Restoring Subtree Quotas

Feature Description Applies to
Restore Subtree Quotas You can use this option to restore tree quotas. When this option is enabled, tree quota information such as default and limit values are restored. However, usage information is not restored.

When this option is disabled, no tree quota information is restored from media.

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. In the Browse Options dialog box, click OK.
  4. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  5. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  1. Click the NAS Options tab.
  2. Select Yes for Restore Subtree Quotas.
  3. Click OK.
 ONStor

Restoring Tree Quota Information

Feature Description Applies to
Restore QTree Configuration and Usage You can use this option to restore tree or directory quota information from media. When this option is disabled, the quota configuration and usage conditions are not restored and log messages are generated.
  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. In the Browse Options dialog box, click OK.
  4. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  5. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  1. Click the NAS Options tab.
  2. Select Yes for Restore QTree Configuration and Usage.
  3. Click OK.
 ONStor

Additional Restore Options

The following table describes the available additional options to further refine your restore operations:

Option Description related topic
Startup Options

The Startup Options are used by the Job Manager to set priority for resource allocation. This is useful to give higher priority to certain jobs. You can set the priority as follows:

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. In the Browse Options dialog box, click OK.
  4. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  5. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  1. In the Advanced Restore Options dialog box, click Startup.
  2. On the Startup tab, select Change Priority.
  3. Enter a priority number - 0 is the highest priority and 999 is the lowest priority.
  4. Select the Start up in suspended State check box to start the job in a suspended state.
  5. Click OK.
 Refer to Job Priority and Priority Precedence.
Copy Precedence By default, the system retrieves data from the storage policy copy with the lowest copy precedence. If the data was pruned from the primary copy, the system automatically retrieves data from the other copies of the storage policy in the lowest copy precedence to highest copy precedence order. Once the data is found, it is  retrieved, and no further copies are checked.

You can retrieve data from a specific storage policy copy (Synchronous Copy or Selective Copy). If data does not exist in the specified copy, the data retrieve operation fails even if the data exists in another copy of the same storage policy. Follow the steps given below to retrieve the data from a a specific storage policy copy:

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. In the Browse Options dialog box, click OK.
  4. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  5. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  1. In the Advanced Restore Options dialog box, click Copy Precedence.
  2. On the Copy Precedence tab, select the Restore from copy precedence check box.
  3. Enter the copy precedence number.
  4. Click OK.
 Refer to Recovering Data From Copies.
Data Path Options

The data recovery operations use a default Library, MediaAgent, Drive Pool, and Drive as the Data Path. You can use this option to change the data path if the default data path is not available. Follow the steps given below to change the default data path:

When restoring NAS data, the same drive pool type that was used during backup should be selected to restore the data.
  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. In the Browse Options dialog box, click OK.
  4. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  5. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  1. In the Advanced Restore Options dialog box, click Data Path.
  2. On the Data Path tab, select the MediaAgent and Library.
  3. Select the Drive Pool and Drive for optical and tape libraries.
  4. Select the name of the Proxy server if you wish to restore using a proxy server.

    You can select the Proxy server only when you are restoring from a snapshot. This option is not available for a regular restore.

  5. Click OK.
 Refer to Change Data Path.
Encryption

If the client's data is encrypted with a pass phrase, you must enter the pass-phrase to start the data recovery operation. Follow the steps given below to enter the pass-phrase:

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. In the Browse Options dialog box, click OK.
  4. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  5. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  1. In the Advanced Restore Options dialog box, click Encryption.
  2. Enter the Pass Phrase.
  3. Click OK.
 Refer to Data Encryption.
Alerts

This option enables users or user groups to get automatic notification on the status of the data recovery job. Follow the steps given below to set up the criteria to raise notifications/alerts:

  1. From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | <File Server> NAS NDMP.
  2. Right-click the backup set and click All Tasks | Browse Backup Data.
  3. In the Browse Options dialog box, click OK.
  4. Select the data that you want to restore and click Recover All Selected.
  5. In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box, click Advanced.
  1. In the Advanced Restore Options dialog box, click Alerts.
  2. Click Add Alert.
  3. From the Add Alert Wizard dialog box, select the required threshold and notification criteria and click Next.
  4. Select the required notification types and click Next.
  5. Select the recipients and click Next.
  6. Click Finish.
  7. Click OK.
 Refer to Alert.
Command Line Restores Command Line Interface enables you to perform backups or restore from the command line. The commands can be executed from the command line or can be integrated into scripts.

You can also generate command line scripts for specific operations from the CommCell Browser using the Save As Script option.

Refer to Command Line Interface.
CommCell Readiness Report The CommCell Readiness Report provides you with vital information, such as connectivity and readiness of the Client, MediaAgent and CommServe. It is useful to run this report before performing the data protection or recovery job. Follow the steps given below to generate the report:
  1. From the Tools menu in the CommCell Console, click Reports.
  2. Navigate to Reports | CommServe | CommCell Readiness.
  3. Click the Client tab and click the Modify button.
  4. In the Select Computers dialog box, clear the Include All Client Computers and All Client Groups check box.
  5. Select the client from the Exclude list.
  6. Click the Include > button.
  7. Click OK.
  8. Click the MediaAgent tab.
  9. Clear the Include All MediaAgents checkbox.
  10. Select the MediaAgent from the Exclude list.
  11. Click Include >.
  12. Click Run.

    The generated report is displayed.

Refer to CommCell Readiness Report.
Restore Job Summary Report

The Restore Job Summary Report provides you with information about all the data recovery jobs that are run in last 24 hours for a specific client and agent. You can get information such as failure reason, failed objects, job options etc. It is useful to run this report after performing the restore. Follow the steps given below to generate the report:

  1. From the Tools menu in the CommCell Console, click Reports.
  2. Navigate to Reports | Jobs | Job Summary.
  3. Click Data Recovery on the General tab in the right pane.
  4. On the Computers tab, select the client and the agent for which you want to run the report.
  5. Click Run.
 Refer to Restore Job Summary Report.