Restore; Restoring With The Backup History - Cobalt Digital Inc COBALT Qube 3 User Manual

Chapter 5: Administration Site
NFS server
For a backup by NFS Server:
• specify a location only
• a location is in the form
• a password is not required
SMB server
For a backup by SMB Server (Windows File Sharing):
• specify a location (fileserver and directory), user name and password
• a location is in the form
All scheduled backups
For All Scheduled backups, ensure that the target location is available and has
enough disk space to hold the backup archive. Failure to do this may result in
zero-length or truncated archives.

Restore

There are two ways to restore a data set to the Qube 3: use the backup history or
restore the data set manually.
When a backup runs, it creates a new directory in the location specified in the
Method of Backup section of the Add Scheduled Backup table; see "Creating a
backup" on page 175. The directory name is the time at which the backup was
started and has the form: Year Month Day Hour Minute Second. For example, the
directory name "20000921174533" indicates that the backup was run at 17:45:33
on September 21, 2000.

Restoring with the backup history

If your system failed and you have cleansed your system with the Cobalt
OS Restore CD, your backup history is not available. To retrieve your history file,
you must transfer the most recent history file of one of your data sets to the
Qube 3. This is a separate file within a data set and it always includes the backup
data set with which it was associated. The directory names created by the
backups can be used to determine the most recent backup.
To retrieve a history file, create the directory
and load the history file in the new directory. This file must be named history. You
can use any method to transfer the file there.
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server:/dir1/dir2
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