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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
  3. Instant Recovery configuration
  4. About Instant Recovery capabilities
Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide

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

Instant Recovery requirements

Instant Recovery restrictions

Giving full server privileges to the media server

About Instant Recovery

Configuring a policy for Instant Recovery

About sizing the cache for Instant Recovery copy-on-write snapshots

About configuring VxVM

Modifying the VxVM or FlashSnap resync options for point in time rollback

Instant Recovery for databases

About storage lifecycle policies for snapshots

About Instant Recovery capabilities

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