Legato Networker ClientPak and Storage Node User's Guide

Recovering a File That Already Exists

To recover files with an earlier backup date, follow these steps:

1. To recover an earlier backup, enter the changetime command and the new browse

time. Continuing with the previous example, to recover the version of the file with

the save time of Tues Sep 30 14:08:46 1997, change the browse time as follows:

recover> changetime

9/31/97 23:59:59

The following message is displayed:

time changed to Tues Sep 30 23:59:59 1997

The following formats are valid browse time entries:

– hh:mm:ss (24 hour clock) or hh:mm:ss (am or pm)

– mm/dd(/yy) or monthname dd (yy) (yy is optional)

– Last Friday, next Friday, or third Friday

– + or -x seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, months, or years

– Now (the current date and time)

2. Mark the file, as follows:

recover> add

rep1

3. Start the recovery process as follows:

recover> recover

NetWorker recovers the file dated Tues Sep 30 14:08:46 1997, the file that is closest

to and earlier than the changed browse time of 11:59:59 pm Tuesday, September

30th.

Recovering a File That Already Exists

If you try to recover a file that already exists in the client directory, NetWorker tells you

that the file exists and gives you the options of discarding the recovered file,

overwriting the existing file with the recovered file, or renaming the recovered file.

This section assumes that you have started the NSRRECOV program, changed to the

save set where the saved file resides, marked the file, and started the file recovery.

If a file that you mark for recovery already exists, NetWorker displays the following

message:

/projects/project1/rep1 file exists, overwrite (n,y,N,Y, or

rename (r, R) [n]?

You can respond to this message in lowercase or uppercase:

• A response in uppercase means that you do not want NetWorker to display the

above message if the file already exists; meaning you want your response to apply

to the recovery of each existing file during the current recovery session.

• Lowercase means that you want NetWorker to display the above message each

time that you try to recover an existing file. The default response to the above

warning prompt is a lowercase “n”; you do not want to overwrite the current

existing file and you want to be prompted each time you try to recover an existing

file.