Restoring virtual media and user files from tape
Use the Integrated Virtualization Manager to restore files in your user /home directory and virtual media files from tape to your managed system.
You must have a tape device mounted on the managed system
to complete
this task.
To restore user files or virtual media
files from tape, complete
the following steps:
- From the Service Management menu, click Backup/Restore. The Backup/Restore page is displayed.
- Click the File and Virtual Media Backup/Restore tab.
- Click List Tape Contents to view a list of all files on the specified tape device. When the process finishes reading the tape, you can view the list of files in the Tape Device File table.
- In the Tape Device File table, select the files that you want to restore to the managed system from tape.
- Click Generate Command. Integrated Virtualization Manager updates the page by replacing the Tape Device File table with an informational message that contains the command that you need to run to restore the selected files.
- Copy the command that the Integrated Virtualization Manager generated and open a terminal session window.
- Paste the command into the terminal window and run it to restore the selected files to the managed system. The command only restores files to those directories to which your user ID has write-access authority. If you have selected to restore a file to a directory to which you do not have such authority, the command cannot restore that particular file.
You also can use Integrated Virtualization Manager to
back up files in your user /home directory and
virtual
media files on the managed system to tape. For more information see Backing up virtual media and user files to tape.
