Restore
The Restore system allows you to restore backup data or applications to your registered clients. When you select a client, you will see three distinct areas of the screen:
- In the upper left-hand corner, a monthly calendar for available Recovery Point Days,
- Below the calendar, a window that lists all Recovery Point Times for a selected day,
- A time ring "clock" which depicts the Recovery Point times over a 24-hour period.
- Select the client or the application that you wish to restore in the Navigational Pane and click on the Restore button in the main menu.
- Use the Calendar selector to pick your month in the Recovery Point Day calendar.
- Click on a day in the selected month with available backups.
- From the available of Recovery Point times shown in the list or the recovery clock, select the time closest to which you want to restore and click the "Next(Select Options)" or the "Next(Select Files/Items)" buttons on the lower right-hand portion of the screen.
- If a file-based backup type, you will be switched to a file browser showing the files from your client at that time, if applicable. This "synthesized" view of files is not applicable for Selective backups, so for these backups all files within that particular backup will be browseable. If you have selected an application backup, you will switch to an application restore screen for the particular application item being restored, e.g., a VM, a Microsoft SQL Server database, etc. In addition, if the application backup supports a file-level recovery, you will see a "Restore Files" button when that application backup is selected, and you will enter the file-restore screen for that particular application. More information on this type of restore is available here.
- Follow the instructions for the particular restore screen, then click on "Restore" to initiate the restore process.
File-Based Restore
The file-based Restore screen allows you to either restore or verify one or more files from a previously specified backup job. Restoring one or more files simply means recovering the file or files from a previous backup; verifying one or more files simply means verifying that you can recover the file or files from a previous backup without actually bringing the file back to your system.
In order to restore or verify you must first specify which file or files you wish to restore or verify and then specify whether you want to restore or verify. The upper panel is a file navigator that allows you to select one or more files to restore or verify; the lower panel is an execution panel that allows you to select whether you wish to restore or verify the selected file or files. You can also choose to cancel and return to the previous screen.
Advanced options for file navigation include the ability to drag and drop
one or more files to indicate selection for a later restore or verify operation.
You are also allowed to use various filter options with respect to both the
available and selected file lists to aid in the selection and exclusion process.
Advanced options for execution include a wide variety of execution-oriented options
such as the specification of an alternate directory, an alternate client, commands
to run on the client before and after the restore, and a series of flags that define
how the files are restored from the backup. By default, several of these flags are set
and in most instances do not need to be changed except in special circumstances. For
example, if you do not want to overwrite an existing file with the same name as a
file restored from the backup, you would uncheck the
selection "Overwrite Existing Files?".
Restore By Selecting a Backup
An alternate way of entering the Restore screen is by clicking on a backup. When you select a backup operation from the tabbed area in the lower portion of the front-page status screen, a window is displayed which shows the details of the backup and allows you to restore files from the backup or delete the backup. For a file-based backup, choosing the "Restore" button will cause you to enter the file-based Restore screen. For an application-based backup, e.g., Exchange, choosing the "Restore" button will cause you to enter a restore screen for that application.