Large restores from an Instant Recovery snapshot

For restore of an entire raw partition or large file system, Veritas recommends a fully allocated snapshot method.

Examples are the following:

VxVM as a snapshot mirror (not space-optimized)
EMC_CLARiiON_Snapview_Clone
EMC_TimeFinder_Clone
EMC_TimeFinder_Mirror
HP_EVA_Snapclone
Hitachi_ShadowImage
IBM_DiskStorage_FlashCopy
IBM_StorageManager_FlashCopy
Any copy-on-write disk array method that is configured with a fully-allocated snapshot.

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