Windows operating systems

Restoring NAS files and directories using the backup-archive client GUI

You can use the toc option with the include.fs.nas option in your client options file to specify whether the client saves Table of Contents (TOC) information for each file system backup.

Before you begin

The backup-archive client GUI must be connected to the IBM Spectrum Protect Version 8.1.2 or later server, or V7.1.8 or later V7 server.

About this task

If you save TOC information, you can use backup-archive client GUI to examine the entire file system tree and select files and directories to restore. Creation of a TOC requires that you define the TOCDESTINATION attribute in the backup copy group for the management class to which this backup image is bound. Note that TOC creation requires additional processing, network resources, storage pool space, and possibly a mount point during the backup operation. If you do not save TOC information, you can still restore individual files or directory trees using the RESTORE NODE server command, provided that you know the fully qualified name of each file or directory and the image in which that object was backed up.

To restore NAS files and directories:

Procedure

  1. Click Restore from the main window. The Restore window appears.
  2. Expand the directory tree if necessary. To expand a node in the tree, click the plus sign (+) next to an object in the tree. Nodes shown are those that have been backed up and to which your administrator has authority. The root node called Nodes is not selectable. This node only appears if a NAS plug-in is present on the client workstation. NAS nodes appear on the same level as the node of the client workstation. Only nodes to which the administrator has authority appear.
  3. Expand the NAS node to display the File Level object.
  4. Expand the File Level object to display the volumes, directories, and files that were last backed up. When you expand the volume object, and complete TOC information is available on the server for the latest backup, the Load Table of Contents dialog appears. If complete TOC information is not available for the latest backup, no objects appear below the volume object. The next step explains how to display objects from backups other than the latest backup. Complete TOC information is provided if you performed either of the following operations: (1) A differential image backup with TOC information and its corresponding full image backup with TOC information, or (2) A full image backup with TOC information.
  5. Click the selection boxes next to the directories or files that you want to restore.
    1. If you want to restore files from a NAS image that was backed up on a particular date or display files from several older versions, highlight the volume you want to restore and click the Point In Time button.
    2. If you select Use a Point in Time Date in the Point in Time Restore windows, files from the image backed up on that date, and if it is a differential image, files from its corresponding full image appear under the File Level object.
    3. If you click Use Selected Images in the Point in Time Restore window, the Selected Images window appears for you to select images. The contents of the selected images appear in the File Level object.
  6. Click Restore. The Restore Destination window appears. Enter the information in the Restore Destination window. If you choose to restore to a different destination, you can only restore one volume at a time to a different destination.
  7. Click Restore. The NAS Restore Task List window displays the restore processing status and progress bar. If there is a number next to the progress bar, it indicates the size of the restore, if known. After the restore completes, the NAS Restore Report window displays processing details. If you must close the backup-archive client GUI session, current NAS operations continue after you disconnect. You can use the Dismiss button on the NAS Restore Task List window to quit monitoring processes without ending the current operation.
  8. (Optional) To monitor processing of an operation, select the Actions > IBM Spectrum Protect Activities from the main window.

Results

Considerations:

  • Workstation and remote (NAS) backups are mutually exclusive in a Restore window. After selecting an item for restore, the next item you select must be of the same type either (either workstation or NAS).
  • To view information about objects in a NAS node, highlight the object and select View > File Details from the menu.
  • To delete NAS file spaces, select Utilities > Delete Filespaces. You can delete both workstation and remote objects.