Restore

As restoring your backup data is very crucial, it is recommended that you perform a restore operation immediately after your first full backup to understand the process. The following section explain the steps for restoring a database.

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

    Right-click the <Instance>, point to All Tasks, and then click Browse and Restore.

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  2. 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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  3. In the right pane of the window, select one or more databases that you wish to restore.

    Click Recover All Selected.

    The MySql Restore dialog box appears.

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  4. Select the Recover check box.

    Click Browse to select the staging location.

    Click OK.

  5. You can monitor the progress of the restore job in the Job Controller.

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  6. Once the restore job has completed, right-click the agent or <Instance>, point to View and click Restore History.

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  7. Click OK.

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  8. You can view the following details about the job by right-clicking the job:

    • View Restore Items - You can view them as Successful, Failed, Skipped or All.

    • View Job Details

    • View Events of the restore job.

    • View and send Log files of the restore job

    • Resubmit the restore job

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  9. Once the files are restored, verify that the restored files and folders are available in the restore destination provided in step 4.

    mysql> show databases;
     | Database |
     +--------------------+
     | mysql |
     | performance_schema |
     | test |
     +--------------------+

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