Retrieve archives

Select the Retrieve function to recover an archive copy of a file or a directory.

Note: When you retrieve a directory, its modification date and time is set to the date and time of the retrieve, not to the date and time the directory had when it was archived. This is because a retrieve operation retrieves the directories first, and then adds the files to the directories.

You can also retrieve archive copies from the directory tree, filter the directory tree, and retrieve archive copies of files owned by someone else. To do any of these, click the Retrieve button on the main window of the backup-archive client GUI and follow the directions provided in the task help of the GUI.

Important: When you retrieve a file without any specifications, and more than one version of the archive copy exists on the server, all of the copies are retrieved. After the first copy is retrieved, the second copy is retrieved. If there is an existing copy on your client workstation, you are prompted to replace, skip, or cancel.