The Restore By Jobs feature provides the facility to select a specific backup job to be restored. This method of restoring data is considerably faster as it reads continuously on the tape and retrieves the data and does not depend on the indexing subsystem to get the seek offsets on the media.
This feature can be used in different scenarios such as the followings:
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To restore point-in-time data associated with a specific backup job, such as full, incremental, differential, and so on.
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To restore CommServe DR data for the disaster recovery or for creating a hot-site purposes.
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To restore multiplexed data from the same client.
Consider the following:
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Run a restore by jobs whenever you want to restore the entire contents of the job.
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Avoid running restores by jobs for jobs associated with the default subclient. If you do this, the entire contents of the machine are restored and it ends up with out of memory error or restoring operating system files and other unwanted directories and files.
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Avoid modifying the contents of any associated subclients since this results in the retrieval of older data.
Use the following steps to restore data by jobs.
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From the CommCell Browser, right-click the <Agent>, <Instance>, <BackupSet>, or <Subclient> whose data you want to browse.
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Click View | Backup History.
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Click OK.
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Right-click the backup job that needs to be restored and then click Browse and Restore.
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Click View Content.
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From the Browse window, select FSBasedBackupSet and click Recover All Selected.
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From the PostgreSQL Database Restore Options dialog box, click OK.