About file promotion
The file promotion procedure is the same as the standard restore procedure for NetBackup.
See the NetBackup Backup, Archive, and Restore Getting Started Guide.
No special settings or choices are required when you are using the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface.
If the requirements are met, NetBackup automatically attempts file promotion for the file.
Otherwise the restore of the file takes place in the standard manner, without file promotion. All file data is copied from the snapshot to the primary file system. The NetBackup progress log indicates how many files were promoted and how many files that could not be promoted were restored by means of tar.