Administrator Guide

Restoring Data

This section provides the procedures for restoring data.

NOTE: The Restore action is not available for the Local Volumes and VMware Datastores backup

extensions.

CAUTION: Do not attempt to restore a database that is offline. Either bring the database online,

or drop the database, before attempting to restore the database using Replay Manager.

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Replay Manager Best Practices

Display Restore Points for a Component

When components are selected, the available restore points are displayed on the right side of the

explorer.

1. In the Server Connections area of the navigation pane, connect to a server or host.

2. In the Backup Extensions area of the navigation pane, select a data source.

3. Select a component. Right‐click the name of a server or host and click Select All Children to select

all its components.

Restore point details are displayed in the Restore Point Details and Restore Point Reports tabs in the

bottom pane of the display.

Restore Data to its Original Location

Use the Restore Snapshot dialog box to recover (overwrite) the original data with the selected restore

point data.

The Restore action restores data to its original location, overwriting existing data with the restore point

data. To prevent losing any data at the original location, make sure to take a backup after all changes are

made to a database before using Restore or use Expose (rather than Restore) and then manually merge

Replay data with the existing data.

NOTE: For VMware Virtual Machines restore points only: Under some conditions, restore operations

do not retain the thin-provisioned state of the original component; that is, a restore operation may

allocate all virtual disk space, resulting in greater than expected space consumption.

NOTE: The Restore action is not available for the Local Volumes backup extension, which includes

all restore points that have been transported to another server.

NOTE: The Restore action is not available for the VMware Datastores backup extension.

1. In the Server Connections area of the navigation pane, connect to a server or host.

2. In the Backup Extensions area of the navigation pane, select a data source.

3. In the explorer pane, select a component. Restore points for the component are displayed in the

right side of the explorer.

4. Select a restore point.

5. In the Restore Points area of the action pane, click Restore. The Restore Snapshot dialog box

appears.

6. In the Components area, select the components to restore.