Restore from GFS - What am I missing? 1

[FlyerNut]

Hi All,

We use Arcserve 11.5, and have a GFS rotation where we use seprate tapes for Monthly, Weekly and Incrementals.

If I choose to restore for a particular day, shouldn't the restore begin by using the weekly backup tape, then request (or find if you have a library) the incremental tape that holds the incremental for the day from which I need to restore?

I ran a manual restore, by session, and it only restored the incremental changes for the day in question. My thought is that it should start from the latest full backup and automatically add the incremental changes.

Does the wizard take care of this? Am I missing something?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Cyklops]

The restore by session method performs a restore as seen form the particular session on tape media. If this session was incremental the job will only restore the incremental changes for the day in question as you stated.
The restore by tree method can take care of the restore you require by selecting the right machine and choose the right sessions through the 'version' tab. When submitting the job you will then see that the restore job consists of various media that make up the total job.
This is all very dependant of the state of the database, also keep in mind that ARCserve doesn't 'know' which files have been deleted on the machine itself. The restore will also retore these deleted files.

hope I'm clear

regards

 

[FlyerNut]

Thanks for your help, it's greatly appreciated. The restore by tree method information in the manual doesn't come close to explaining its value, as a matter of fact the manual's interpretation of this method doesn't make much sense!

Tony