Guidelines for restoring from a FlashBackup backup

The following describes the guidelines for restoring from a FlashBackup backup:

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You must be logged on as a system administrator to the NetBackup master server that backed up the partition.

Restore type and partition selection

  • To restore an entire partition, (including Windows disk images), you must select the Raw Partition Backup restore type.

  • To restore UNIX partitions, you must select the device file for the partition that you want to restore.

    To restore Windows disk images, you must select the logical disk. The disk image appears as a logical drive with the name that was specified in the Backup Selections list of the backup policy (such as \\.\D:).

Policy type and configuration

  • The backup policy that performs the backup must be either FlashBackup (for UNIX) or FlashBackup-Windows.

  • The backup policy that performs the backup must be configured for a raw partition backup. The configuration requires that the Backup Selections list in the policy include the device file for the partition.

Note:

On UNIX systems, the device file for the partition must exist.

Destination disk

  • On Windows systems, ensure that the raw partition (or logical disk) is mounted (designated as a drive letter) but is not in use. You cannot perform a FlashBackup partition restore to the system boot disk or to the disk where NetBackup is installed.

  • On UNIX systems, unmount the partition and verify that it is not in use. You cannot perform a FlashBackup partition restore to the root partition or to the partition where NetBackup is installed.

  • Ensure that the partition on the destination disk is the same size as the source partition when it was backed up. Otherwise, the restore results are unpredictable.

  • Close or stop any database that uses the partition for storage.

  • Exit from all applications that are running on the partition.

See Restoring a partition from a FlashBackup backup.

See Restoring individual items from a FlashBackup backup.

More Information

Restoring by backup date

Restoring from a specific backup image copy