Find Data - Image Level iDataAgent

Understanding the Find Options Window

Find provides an easy-to-use convenience to search and restore data.

You can open the Find window from the agent or subclient level. The sub levels displayed in the result window is based on where you start the browse operation.

Selecting Objects from the Find Window for Restore

The find window displays the contents of the selected object.

Note that the window displays only the data that was obtained by a backup. Data that is excluded by a filter, or data which did not exist as of the specified browse time does not appear in the window.

Selections follow these rules:

• All selections are recursive.

• Clicking a box again causes the selection to be cleared.

• If you select an object in the left pane, then all of its contents are selected.

• You can select a specific object in the right pane.

Selection status is revealed by the selection icons as follows:

Find and Restore Latest Data

Follow the steps given below to view the latest data backed up by a backup set:

1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client>.

2. Right-click Image Level and click All Tasks | Find.

3. Click View Content.

The latest data backed up by all the subclients is displayed in the Client Browse tab.

Find and Restore Data before a Specified Time

Follow the steps given below to browse the data backed up before specified time. This will display data from all cycles that fall under the specified time range.

1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client>.

2. Right-click Image Level and click All Tasks | Find.

3. Click Time Range and then click Absolute Time.

4. Under Absolute Time select End Time and enter a date and time to browse and restore data before it.

5. Click View Content.

Find and Restore Data between a Specified Time

Follow the steps given below to browse data between specified time:

1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client>.

2. Right-click Image Level and click All Tasks | Find.

3. Click Time Range and then click Absolute Time.

4. Under Absolute Time do the following:

   • Select Start Time and enter a date and time.

   • Select End Time and enter a date and time.

   Data in between the time specified here will be browsed and restored.

5. Click View Content.

Find and Restore Data from Past n Days

1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client>.

2. Right-click Image Level and click All Tasks | Find.

3. Click Time Range and then click Relative Time.

4. Enter a number in the Last field and select Day, Week, Month or Year to browse and restore data.

5. Click View Content.

Find and Restore from Copies

By default, when a browse operation is requested, the software attempts to browse from the storage policy copy with the lowest copy precedence. If the data that you want to browse was already pruned from the primary copy, the software searches the other copies of the storage policy, starting from the copy with the lowest copy precedence to a copy with the highest copy precedence.

This feature is useful in the following conditions:

• The media containing protected data for a particular copy has been removed from the storage library, you can choose to browse from a copy whose media are inside the library.

• Allows browsing from a copy that accesses faster disk media rather than slower tape media.

• When media drives used by a particular copy are busy with another operation, this helps in browsing from a different copy to avoid resource conflicts.

• From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client>.

• Right-click Image Level and click All Tasks | Find.

• From the Find Options dialog box, click the Advanced Options tab.

• Select the Browse from copy precedence check box, and specify the precedence number.

  Note

  If you specify a copy precedence number for a browse operation, the software searches only the storage policy copy with that precedence number in all storage policies used for securing the data. If data does not exist in the specified copy, the browse operation fails even if the data exists in another copy of the same storage policy.

• Click View Content.

List Media

List media option is useful to predict media required to restore the index required to browse data. This is useful when the index is not available in the index cache.
This option is also used to list media associated with data protection operations up to the specified date and time range.

The following section describes how to perform this operation.

1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client>.

2. Right-click Image Level and click All Tasks | Find.

3. Click List Media.

   You can usethe Latest Data to list media associated with the most recent data protection cycle.

   Or Specify Browse Time to list media associated with data protection operations up to the specified date and time range.

4. From the List Media dialog box, click List Media for restore within specified time range.

5. Click OK.

   The appropriate media is listed in the Media dialog box.

Find and Restore Using MediaAgent

Data can be restored from any compatible library and drive type in the CommCell. By default, the system automatically identifies and restores data from any configured library in the CommCell, even if the media is not available in the original library in which the data protection operation was performed. Use this procedure to Browse using a specific MediaAgent.

1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client>.

2. Right-click Image Level and click All Tasks | Find.

3. From the Find Options dialog box, click the Advanced Options tab and choose the MediaAgent that must be used to perform the browse.

4. Click View Content.