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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
  3. Restoring clients
  4. BMR disk recovery behavior
  5. BMR disk class processing with prepare-to-restore options
Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

BMR disk class processing with prepare-to-restore options

Table: Actions for system disks describes the actions that BMR performs for system disks.

Table: Actions for nonsystem disks describes the actions that BMR performs for nonsystem disks and any action you should perform.

Note the following about the Restore options columns of the tables:

  • System only is the Restore system disks/volumes only option for prepare to restore

  • Import is the Make available volumes on non-restored disks after the system is restored option for prepare to restore

To avoid conflicts with other cluster nodes that may use surviving shared disks during a restore, shared disks should remain restricted or be unmapped or remapped to alternate, non-shared restorable locations. Shared disks should only be unrestricted and restored in-place if other cluster nodes do not hold the share actively during the restore.

Table: Actions for system disks

Restore options

Action

System only = true and import = true

Restore

System only = true and import = false

Restore

System only = false and import = true

Restore

System only = false and import = false

Restore

Table: Actions for nonsystem disks

Restore options

Restorable

Nonrestorable

Shared

Missing

New

System only = true and import = true

Import

Import

No action

Mark the restricted disk, remap to a restorable disk, or remove the disk from the restore configuration

Not imported

System only = true and import = false

No action

No action

No action

No action

No action

System only = false and import = true

Restore

Import

No action

Mark the restricted disk, remap to a restorable disk, or remove the disk from the restore configuration

Not imported

System only = false and import = false

Restore

Remove the disk from the restore configuration or mark the disk restricted

No action

Mark the restricted disk, remap to a restorable disk, or remove the disk from the restore configuration

No action

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