Restoring your data

Use IBM Spectrum 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 Spectrum 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 Spectrum Protect restores the directories first, then adds the files to the directories.

All client backup and restore procedures that are referenced by this topic also apply to the web client. However, the web client does not provide a Preferences Editor for setting client options.

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:

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