About Instant Recovery capabilities
The Instant Recovery feature of Snapshot Manager enables high-speed data retrieval from disk by means of the standard NetBackup user interface. Note the following features:
Supports NetBackup clients on Solaris, HP, AIX, Linux, and Windows. The primary server can be on any supported operating system.
Supports NetBackup clients on Linux and Windows. The primary server can be on any supported operating system.
Uses snapshot technologies to create disk images.
Can create a snapshot and a backup to tape or disk, from one policy.
Enables random-access (non-sequential) restores of dispersed files from full backups.
Enables block-level restore and file promotion from VxFS_Checkpoint snapshots (UNIX) and file promotion from NAS_Snapshot. Also enables Fast File Resync from VxVM and FlashSnap snapshots on Windows.
Enables rollback from the backups that were created using the following: VxFS_Checkpoint, VxVM, FlashSnap, NAS_Snapshot, or disk array methods.
Enables rollback from the backups that were created using VSO method.
Can restore to a different path or host.
Provides the resource management by means of a rotation schedule.
Supports Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, DB2, SAP, and SQL-Server databases.
Supports Oracle.
More Information
Giving full server privileges to the media server
Configuring a policy for Instant Recovery
About sizing the cache for Instant Recovery copy-on-write snapshots
Modifying the VxVM or FlashSnap resync options for point in time rollback
Instant Recovery for databases