User Guide

34 Storage Management Services Administration Guide
Storage Management Services Administration Guide
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August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Restore Options
For a custom restore session, you can specify exactly which data to restore.
Several options work together to allow you maximum flexibility in your
restore session. These options allow you to do the following:
 Choose subsets of data to restore
 Open mode options
 Overwrite an existing parent (such as a container) or child (such as an
object)
Subsets of Data to Restore
You can choose specific subsets of a backup session to include in or exclude
from the restore session by selecting major resources (such as volumes,
server-specific info, or containers) or minor resources (such as directories,
paths, files, or objects).
For more information about including and excluding, see “Customizing Your
Backup” on page 16.
Open Mode Options
Open mode options allows you to customize data for restore. File system data
can either be included or excluded for the session. The speed of the restore
depends on the options you set.
Overwriting Existing Parents or Children
Be careful when you perform a selective restore and choose whether to
overwrite existing parents or children, especially eDirectory objects. Objects
such as groups and users have references to other objects in the eDirectory tree
structure that will be affected by a selective restore.
For example, suppose a part of the eDirectory tree structure gets corrupted and
several users are deleted from the tree. There is a group that contains those
users, but once the users are gone, the group purges the membership list to
remove those users; the group, however, continues to exist in the eDirectory
tree structure.
If you perform a selective restore and choose not to overwrite existing objects,
the group membership list remains empty even if you restore the users. You
need to either add the users manually to the group membership list or restore
the original group.