About Instant Recovery capabilities
The Instant Recovery feature of Snapshot Client enables high-speed data retrieval from disk by means of the standard NetBackup user interface. Note the following features:
Supports NetBackup clients on Solaris, HP, AIX, Linux, and Windows. The master server can be on any supported operating system.
Uses snapshot technologies to create disk images.
Can create a snapshot and a backup to tape or disk, from one policy.
Enables random-access (non-sequential) restores of dispersed files from full backups.
Enables block-level restore and file promotion from VxFS_Checkpoint snapshots (UNIX) and file promotion from NAS_Snapshot. Also enables Fast File Resync from VxVM and FlashSnap snapshots on Windows.
Enables rollback from the backups that were created using the following: VxFS_Checkpoint, VxVM, FlashSnap, NAS_Snapshot, or disk array methods.
Can restore to a different path or host.
Provides the resource management by means of a rotation schedule.
Supports Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, DB2, SAP, and SQL-Server databases.
More Information
Giving full server privileges to the media server
Configuring a policy for Instant Recovery
About sizing the cache for Instant Recovery copy-on-write snapshots
Modifying the VxVM or FlashSnap resync options for point in time rollback
Instant Recovery for databases