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About restoring to dissimilar disks — NetBackup 11.1 | Cohesity Documentation
About restoring to dissimilar disks
You can restore a protected client even if the disk drives were replaced. You also can perform a dissimilar disk restore (DDR) if you need to change the volume layout or size or restore only some of the disks or volumes.