Restoring data from vaulted media

You may need to restore images from media that is stored in your off-site vault. The high-level procedure in this section describes how to restore data from vaulted media.

To restore data from vaulted media

  1. Recall the media.

  2. Change the images to be recovered to primary (NetBackup restores from the primary image).

    Use the bpchangeprimary command to promote a copy to primary.

    See the NetBackup Commands for UNIX or NetBackup Commands for Windows guide.

  3. If the media is not suspended or frozen, suspend the media.

    Use the bpmedia command to suspend the media.

    See the NetBackup Commands for UNIX or NetBackup Commands for Windows guide.

  4. Inject the media into the robot.

    Injecting the media moves it into the robot and also changes the off-site volume group attribute of the media to the robotic volume group so NetBackup knows that the media are in the robot.

  5. Using the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface, restore the data.

    See the NetBackup Backup, Archive, and Restore Getting Started Guide.

  6. After restoring all the data, revault the media.

More Information

Injecting media

Revaulting unexpired media