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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  3. Section VIII. Performing restores
  4. Managing client restores
  5. About client-redirected restores
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

About client-redirected restores

The Backup, Archive, and Restore client interface contains options for allowing clients to restore the files that were backed up by other clients. The operation is called a redirected restore.

For the following Backup Services API (XBSA) agents, redirected restores to a different version of the agent is not supported:

  • MariaDB

  • MySQL

  • PostgreSQL

If you use a non-root service user account, specific access must be allowed for that user when you add files to the /usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames directory. The service user account must have full access to these files through the ownership or group and the permissions. For example, if the service user is svcname and its group is srvgrp, the file can have permissions of 400. If the file owner is for a different user and group, the file permissions must allow access to the service user. For example, 777. Equivalent permission settings must be used in a Windows environment.

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