About restoring clients

The process to restore a protected system depends on the type of restore you want to perform and the operating system of the client.

Table: Restore types

Restore type

Procedures

To restore to the same client and use the most recent backup

See Restoring BMR clients using network boot.

See Restoring BMR clients using media boot.

To restore to a specific point in time

See Restoring to a specific point in time.

To restore a client in which the disks are different

See Restoring to dissimilar disks.

To restore to a new target system (only on Windows systems)

See Restoring to a dissimilar Windows system.

To restore a NetBackup media server

See Restoring NetBackup media servers.

To restore a BMR boot server

See About restoring BMR boot servers.

To customize the restore process

To restore to hosts with Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows.

See About legacy Windows restores.

Other information is available.

See Preparing to restore a client.

See About BMR disk recovery behavior.

See About storage area network support.

See About port usage during restores.

See Perform a full backup after a restore.

More Information

About external procedures