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Restoring Your Data
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Restoring Your Data
A restore is a process that recreates the original data from a backup copy
on a disk. This process consists of the preparation and actual restore of
the data, and optionally some post-restore actions that make the data
ready for use.
Data Protector includes an internal database (IDB) that keeps track of
data, including what files from which system are kept on a particular
medium. The IDB provides fast and convenient access to the data to be
restored.
Data Protector offers you some special restore features:
• The ability to restore on different levels: session, client, object,
directory, specific file, or specific file version
• The option to specify an alternative location to restore your data
• Cross-platform restore
• Parallel restore of multiple objects from a session, on a client, or in a
cell
Depending on the platform, the way you specify these features and
available options can vary.
Standard Restore Procedure
Prerequisite In order to perform a restore, you need to have the appropriate user
rights. These rights are defined according to the user group.
What You Need to
Do to Perform a
Restore
As part of the standard restore procedure, you need to do the following:
• Select the data to be restored
• Find the media needed
• Start the restore session
Other Settings Other settings are already predefined according to the backup process,
but can be modified. If you want to change these predefined settings, you
can specify the following:
• The backup version you want to restore