Restoring Enterprise Vault data
Enterprise Vault is a distributed application that can store archived data at different locations. When you restore Enterprise Vault data, you can restore Enterprise Vault file system data or Enterprise Vault SQL databases. Enterprise Vault file system data consists of Enterprise Vault indexes, open partition, closed partitions, or ready partitions. Examples of Enterprise Vault SQL database information are the Enterprise Vault directory database, a monitoring database, or a vault store database. The following procedures describes how to restore Enterprise Vault data.
See Restore Enterprise Vault migrated data (NetBackup web UI).
See Restore Enterprise Vault data (Backup, Archive, and Restore interface).
The following procedure describes how to restore Enterprise Vault data with the NetBackup web UI.
To restore Enterprise Vault migrated data (NetBackup web UI)
- Open the NetBackup web UI and sign into the server that you want to perform the restore.
- On the left, select Recovery.
- Go to the Regular recovery card and select the Start recovery button.
- From the Policy type list, select Datastore.
- From the Source client list, select the source client. The source client is the policy client in the backup policy from where the backup happened.
- By default the Destination client, is the same source client you have selected to restore the images. You can determine the name of the destination client from either the NetBackup web UI or the Enterprise Vault Administration Console.
- Click Next.
- If necessary, edit the date range to locate the images that contain the objects that you want to restore.
- Select the objects to restore.
- Click Next.
- From the Restore target list, select the target location where you want to restore the Enterprise Vault migrated data.
- From the Recovery options list, select the Restore as Enterprise Vault migrated data to restore the Enterprise Vault migrated data.
Note:
The options to Create and restore to a new virtual hard disk file and to Restore directories without crossing mount points is displayed in theNetBackup web UI or the Enterprise Vault Administration Console but is not supported for NetBackup Enterprise Vault data recovery using Datastore policy.
- In the Media server, do any of the following:
Select the Default option to select the default media server.
Select the Select option to select the media server that you want for the Enterprise Vault data migration.
- Set the job priority number for backup storage.
- Review or edit the recovery job summary.
- Click Start recovery.
The following procedure describes how to restore Enterprise Vault data with the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface.
To restore Enterprise Vault data (Backup, Archive, and Restore interface)
- Open the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface and log on as Administrator.
- Select File > Specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type.
- Select the Enterprise-Vault policy type in the Policy type for restores list.
- Click OK. NetBackup browses for Enterprise Vault backup images.
- From the NetBackup History pane, select the images that contain the objects you want to restore.
- In the All Folders pane, expand Enterprise Vault Resources.
- Select the objects to restore.
- Choose Actions > Restore.
- Make selections on the two tabbed pages depending on what you want to restore.
If you want to restore Enterprise Vault file system data, update the General tab.
See About the Enterprise Vault restore options on the General tab.
If you want to restore Enterprise Vault SQL database, update the Enterprise Vault Database Settings tab.
- Click Start Restore.