Restore individual files and folders to different locations
You can restore the individual files and folders in the backup to different locations.
Restoring files and folders from D-NAS backups
- On the left, click Recovery. On the Recover page, under Regular recovery, click Start recovery.
- In the Basic properties tab, the select policy type as NAS-Data-Protection. Select Restore type as Normal Backups or True image backups. Select the Source client from where you want to recover, and click Next.
- In the Recovery details tab, select a volume on the left to recover. You can click the volume on the left to see the contents of that volume on the right side, and select the required folders(s) or files on the right to restore. You can click a folder on the left to see the individual files and folders inside, on the right. Select any file(s) or folder(s) to recover.
Click Edit to change the date range of the displayed images. Click Use date picker to provide the start and end time of the required interval. Click Use backup history, to see the entire backup history of the image. Select the required image(s) and click Apply.
- In the Recovery options tab, select Restore individual directories and files to different locations. Select the NetBackup host for the target location. In the Specify destinations for the selected item(s) table, click Browse in the Destination column to specify destinations to the items that you want to recover.
- (Optional) Select Allow overwrite of existing files, Restore directories without crossing mount points, Rename hard links, and Rename soft links as required.
- Specify the number of simultaneous data streams that you want to use during restore, in the Number of restore streams per volume field. You can specify a value from 1 to 20. A higher number might affect network performance.
Note:
If you specify the number of restore streams as 1, then all the backup streams of a NAS volume are restored sequentially.
- Use the default media server for the restore, or specify a new one. Specify a job priority and click Next.
- In the Review tab, review all the parameters. To go back and change a parameter, click Previous. Click Start recovery.