Veritas NetBackup™ Replication Director Solutions Guide
- Introduction
- Additional configuration topics
- Creating a NetBackup storage server for snapshot replication
- Configuring disk pools for snapshot and replication
- About disk pools for snapshots and snapshot replication
- Using bpstsinfo to view the replication topology of a device
- Configuring storage units and storage unit groups for snapshots and snapshot replication
- Configuring storage lifecycle policies for snapshots and snapshot replication
- Operation types in a storage lifecycle policy
- Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Index From Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Retention types for storage lifecycle policy operations
- Configuring backup policies for snapshots and snapshot replication
- About NDMP support for Replication Director
- Restoring from a snapshot
- About restores from array-based snapshots of virtual machines
- OpsCenter reporting
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- Supported NetApp topologies
- Using NetApp Data ONTAP 7-mode with Replication Director
- About using NetApp SAN-connected storage with Replication Director
- Using NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP with Replication Director
- Using Oracle with Replication Director
- Using Virtual Machines with Replication Director
- Terminology
Restoring files from array-based snapshots of virtual machines
Note:
When you browse files to restore, the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface displays the files and folders from the primary backup copy. A storage lifecycle policy however can create several images or copies from one job. To restore files from a different copy, set that copy as the primary. See the topic on how to promote a backup copy to a primary copy in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
The initial steps for restoring individual files are described in the NetBackup for VMware Guide.
Note the following when restoring files from Replication Director snapshots:
In the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface, under Files > Specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type, select for the policy type.
If the SLP does not index the VM (or indexing is not complete), the BAR interface browses the files directly from the hardware snapshot. The All Folders pane displays an ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES node at the top level:
If the SLP was configured to index the virtual machine, the folders appear as follows when the indexing is complete:
Note:
If you select an indexed snapshot and a non-indexed snapshot for the same virtual machine, the folders appear twice under All Folders. Do not select files to restore from two different images: the restore fails.
See Configuring a policy for virtual machines to use Replication Director.