Imagetofile

You might need to restore the image to a file if bad sectors are present on the target volume, or if you want to manipulate the image data. Later, you can use a data copy utility of your choice to transfer the image from the file to a disk volume.

Linux® supports mounting an image file as a logical volume, so you can get access to file data within the image. The following are some examples:

• The file system /usr has been backed up by the backup-archive client. The following command restores the file system image to the file /home/usr.img:

  # dsmc restore image /usr /home/usr.img -imagetofile

• To mount the image file at the /mnt/usr directory, the following mount command can be executed:

  # mount /home/usr.img /mnt/usr -o loop=/dev/loop0

Now the image contents are available from /mnt/usr as if a regular file system was mounted at that directory.