Restoring your data

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Use IBM® Storage Protect to restore backup versions of specific files, a group of files with similar names, or entire directories.

You can restore these backup versions if the original files are lost or damaged. Select the files that you want to restore by using a file specification (file path, name, and extension), a directory list, or a subdirectory path to a directory and its subdirectories.

Important: Data that is backed up with IBM Storage Protect Client can be restored only with the same version that was used to back up the data, or a later version.

Note: When you restore a directory, its modification date and time is set to the date and time of the restore operation, and not to the date and time the directory had when it was backed up. This is because IBM Storage Protect restores the directories first, then adds the files to the directories.

Attention: Do not restore operating system files, like base system directories, kernel modules, or patches, to their original location while the file system is running. The operating system might hang or crash.

The following are the primary restore tasks that can be run from the backup-archive client:

Mac OS X operating systems Oracle Solaris operating systems Linux operating systems AIX operating systems Refer to IBM Storage Protect for Space Management for UNIX and Linux® for details about restoring migrated files and the restoremigstate option.

You can also restore only files and directories remotely by using the web user interface.