About Restoring from a Point in Time Rollback

Restoring from a Point in Time Rollback restores a snapshot of an entire file system or volume with minimal I/O. All the data in the snapshot is restored. Files and directories (folders) cannot be restored individually with this method.

Note:

Point in Time Rollback is available only with the NetBackup Snapshot Client option. For more information, see the NetBackup Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide.

To use the Point in Time Rollback option, you must restore the file system or volume to the original location on the client.

Restoring from a Point in Time Rollback returns a volume to a given point-in-time. Any data changes or snapshots that were made after that time are lost.

In a file system rollback (restore), NetBackup verifies that the primary file system does not contain any files that were created after the snapshot was made. Otherwise, the restore stops.

Restoring from a Point in Time Rollback deletes the following files:

See Guidelines for restoring from a Point in Time Rollback.

See Restoring from a Point in Time Rollback.