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Activating and deactivating block-level restore — NetBackup 8.2 | Cohesity Documentation

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Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide

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About Instant Recovery: block-level restore

Activating and deactivating block-level restore

Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide · PDF

Activating and deactivating block-level restore

To activate block-level restore

Create the following (empty) file on the client:
```
/usr/openv/netbackup/PFI_BLI_RESTORE
```
After this file is created, all subsequent restores of the client's data use block-level restore.

To deactivate block-level restore

Delete (or rename) the PFI_BLI_RESTORE file.
When block-level restore is activated, it is used for all files in the restore. Block-level restore may not be appropriate for all of the files. It may take longer to restore a large number of small files, because they must first be mapped.

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