About restores from a FlashBackup backup
Using the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface, you can restore individual directories or files (or an entire raw partition) from a FlashBackup backup. The procedure is the same as that for restoring from a regular backup as described in the NetBackup Backup, Archive, and Restore Getting Started Guide.
Note:
In the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface, set the policy type to for UNIX clients and for Windows clients.
Note the following before you start the restore:
A FlashBackup (or FlashBackup-Windows) backup supports both individual file restore and raw partition restore. You can do either type of restore from the same backup. To restore individual files, select on the Restore Files tab; to restore an entire raw partition, select .
To restore a raw partition, you must have administrator capabilities on the NetBackup server.
An entire raw partition can be restored from a full backup only. FlashBackup incremental backups only support individual file restores.
Ensure that the device file for the raw partition exists before the restore.
The overwrite option must be selected for raw partition restores. The device file must exist and the disk partition is overwritten.
To restore a very large number of files (when individual file restore would take too long), you can do a raw-partition restore. Redirect the restore to another raw partition of the same size and then copy individual files to the original file system.