Restoring migrated files

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Use the backup-archive client to restore a stub file or a complete file after the file was migrated. The restoremigstate option determines whether a stub or a complete file is restored.

Before you begin

A file must be backed up and migrated to the same IBM Storage® Protect server.

If you set the restoremigstate option to NO, you restore a complete file to the local file system. The file has resident status. The migrated copy of the file is removed from IBM Storage Protect storage when the file expires.

If you set the restoremigstate option to YES, you restore a stub file to the local file system.

Note: Files with ACLs are restored to a resident state, even when you set restoremigstate to YES.

About this task

On a space-managed file system, you can restore a stub file only during standard-query restore processing. During no-query restore processing to a space-managed file system, you cannot restore stub files.

You can use the space management client dsmmigundelete command to restore stub files.

Procedure

Use the backup-archive client restore command.

For more information about the IBM Storage Protect backup-archive client restore command, see the IBM Storage Protect backup-archive client documentation: Restore command.