Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide

These scripting options are available for restoring from a database image:

• Restore selected object

  Produce a script that performs a database restore. This script is the default option.

• Create a move template

  Create a script template for moving the selected database.

• Restore read-only filegroups

  Restore the most recent backup of every read-only filegroup.

• Create a page restore template

  Create a template for restoring a database, filegroup, or file from the pages that are contained in the selected backup image. The Microsoft SQL Server service must have full access permission to the folder install_path\netbackup\dbext\mssql\temp.

• Verify backup image, but don't restore

  This option is only available if the image was backed up with the page verification option. NetBackup processes the image for errors, but does not perform a restore.

Specify one of the SQL Server recovery options.

• Not recovered

  Use this option during a restore if additional backup images must be applied to the database following the current restore. When you use this option, the database is left in a loading state.

• Recovered

  Select this option when restoring the last image in a restore sequence. After the recovery operation, the database is ready for use. If you do not select this option, the database is in an intermediate state, and is not usable. If Recovered is selected when an intermediate backup is applied, you cannot continue to restore backups; you must restart the restore operation from the beginning.

• Standby

  Create and maintain a standby during a transaction log and database restore. This option requires a standby undo log, which by default is placed in install_path\NetBackup\logs\SQLStandBy\. The account that runs the Microsoft SQL Server service must have full access permission to the SQLStandBy folder. The database is placed in "standby" state following the restore.

Select the consistency check to be performed after the restore. Output from the consistency check is written to the SQL Server client progress log. You cannot select consistency checking unless the database is restored to the recovered state. If you select consistency checking for a staged recovery, then the check occurs following the last restore.

• None

  Do not perform consistency checking.

• Full check, excluding indexes

  Exclude indexes from the consistency check. If indexes are not checked, the consistency check runs significantly faster but is not as thorough. Only the data pages and clustered index pages for each user table are included in the consistency check. The consistency of the non-clustered index pages is not checked.

• Physical check only

  Select this item to perform a low overhead check of the physical consistency of the SQL Server database. This option only checks the integrity of the physical structure of the page and record headers. It also checks the consistency between the pages' object ID and index ID and the allocation structures.

• Full check, including indexes

  Include indexes in the consistency check. Any errors are logged.

• Check catalog

  Check for consistency in and between system tables in the specified database.

These options are available if the source object was backed up with torn page detection or checksum verification.

• Do not perform verification

  Do not include page verification in the restore script.

• Perform verification

  Include page verification in the restore script and stop the restore if an error is encountered.

• To point in time

  Select this option to have the transaction log recovered to a point in time.

• To transaction log mark

  Select this option to have the transaction log recovered to a transaction log mark. With this option, you must enter a transaction log mark name.

• To transaction log mark but after

  Select this option to have the transaction log recovered to a transaction log mark but after a point in time. With this option, you must enter a transaction log mark name.

• Before transaction log mark

  Select this option to have the transaction log recovered to a point before the occurrence of a transaction log mark. With this option, you must enter a transaction log mark name.

• Before transaction log mark but after

  Select this option recover the transaction log to a point before the occurrence of a transaction log mark but after a point in time. With this option, you must enter a transaction log mark name.

This list is enabled if you selected a database transaction log for restore. The transaction log contains one or more transaction log marks, and you selected one of the following transaction log recovery options:

• To transaction log mark

• To transaction log mark but after

• Before transaction log mark

• Before transaction log mark but after

Specify the time to which you want the transaction logs restored. These fields are only enabled if you selected one of the following transaction log recovery options:

• To point in time

• To transaction log mark but after

• Before transaction log mark but after