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Restoring an image using the GUI

You can use the GUI to restore an image of your file system or raw logical volume.

About this task

Follow these steps to restore an image of your file system or raw logical volume:

Procedure

  1. Click Restore from the main window. The Restore window appears.
  2. Expand the directory tree.
  3. Locate the object in the tree named Image and expand it. Click the selection box next to the image you want to restore. You can obtain detailed information about the object by highlighting the object and selecting View → File Details... from the main window or click the View File details button.
  4. (Optional) To perform an incremental image restore, click the Options button to open the Restore Options window and select the Image plus incremental directories and files option. If you want to delete inactive files from your local file system, select the Delete inactive files from local check box. Click the OK button.
  5. AIX operating systemsHP-UX operating systemsLinux operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsClick Restore. The Restore Destination window appears. The image can be restored to the volume with the mount point from which it was originally backed up. Alternatively, a different volume can be chosen for the restore location.
  6. Windows operating systemsClick Restore. The Restore Destination window appears. The image can be restored to the volume with the drive letter or mount point from which it was originally backed up. Alternatively, a different volume can be chosen for the restore location.
  7. Click the Restore button to begin the restore. The Task List window appears showing the progress of the restore. The Restore Report window displays a detailed status report.

Results

The following are some items to consider when you perform an image restore using the GUI:

  • You can select View → File Details from the main window or click the View File details button to display the following statistics about file system images backed up by the client:
    • Image Size - This is the volume size which was backed up.
    • AIX operating systemsHP-UX operating systemsLinux operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsStored Size - This is the actual image size stored on the server. The stored image on the Tivoli® Storage Manager server is the same size as the volume capacity.
    • Windows operating systemsStored Size - This is the actual image size stored on the server. Because image backup allows you to back up only used blocks in a file system, the stored image size on the Tivoli Storage Manager server could be smaller than the volume size. For online image backups, the stored image can be larger than the file system based on the size of the cache files.
    • File system type
    • Backup date and time
    • Management class assigned to image backup
    • Whether the image backup is an active or inactive copy
  • To modify specific restore options, click the Options button. Any options you change are effective during the current session only.
  • In the Restore Options window, you can choose to restore the image only or the image and incremental directories files. If you choose Image Only, you restore the image from your last image backup only. This is the default.

    If you ran incremental-by-date image backup on a volume or image backups on a volume with incrementals, you can choose the Image plus incremental directories and files option. If you choose Image plus incremental directories and files, you can also select Delete inactive files from local to delete the inactive files that are restored to your local file system. If incremental-by-date image backup was the only type of incremental backup you performed on the file system, deletion of files will not occur.

    Important: Be absolutely sure that you need to perform an incremental restore because it replaces your entire file system with the image from the server and then restore the files that you backed up using the incremental image backup operation.