Perform a Restore
It is recommended that you perform a restore operation immediately after your first full backup to understand the process. The following section explains how to restore the etc folder to a new location.
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From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | File System | defaultBackupSet.
Right-click the default subclient and then click Browse and Restore.
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Click the Advanced Options tab.
Select the MediaAgent that was used during the storage policy creation from the Use MediaAgent drop-down list. This MediaAgent should be the one you installed along with your agent.
Click View Content.
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Expand the defaultBackupSet and navigate to etc folder.
Select the etc folder.
Click Recover All Selected.
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Clear the Overwrite Files and Restore to same folder options.
Specify the destination path by clicking Browse button.
This will ensure that the existing files are not overwritten.
Click OK.
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Click the Job Initiation tab.
Select Immediate to run the job immediately.
Click OK.
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You can monitor the progress of the restore job in the Job Controller window of the CommCell Console.
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Once the restore job is complete, right-click the defaultBackupSet , point to View, and then click Restore History.
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Click OK.
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You can right-click the job and view the following details:
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View Restore Items
You can view them as Successful, Failed, Skipped or All.
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View Job Details
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View Events of the restore job
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View Log files of the restore job
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Once the restore job completes successfully, verify that the restored files/folders are available in the restore destination provided during step 4.
[derp] # ls /.etc etc
Congratulations - You have successfully completed your first backup and restore.
If you want to further explore this Agent's features read the Advanced sections of this documentation.