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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
  3. Backup and restore procedures
  4. Instant Recovery restore features
  5. About Instant Recovery: block-level restore
Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide

About Instant Recovery: block-level restore

If the Instant Recovery snapshot was made with the VxFS_Checkpoint method, large files can be recovered faster by means of block-level restore. Only the blocks that have changed are moved from the snapshot to the client's primary fileset.

Note the following:

  • Block-level restore requires the VxFS File System.

  • Block-level restore is available only when restoring files to the original location on the client, AND when the snapshot method for the backup was VxFS_Checkpoint.

  • If the snapshot method for the backup was VxFS_Checkpoint and the files to be restored are in an Oracle database, block-level restore is automatically enabled.

More information is available about activating and deactivating block-level restore.

See Activating and deactivating block-level restore.

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