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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: file promotion
Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide

About Instant Recovery: file promotion

If the Instant Recovery snapshot was made on UNIX with either VxFS_Checkpoint or NAS_Snapshot, large files that have had many changes since the backup can be recovered more quickly by means of file promotion. File promotion optimizes single-file restore by using a minimum of I/O to recover the files.

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Notes on file promotion

About file promotion

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