How-to do a basic restore with UTORrecover NetWorker using the recover command

To recover files and folders from a source client, you can use the recover command in interactive mode. This allows you to access the client file index from a command prompt and browse through a save set to select individual files and directories for recovery. NetWorker also supports local or directed browsable recovery, enabling you to recover files from a command prompt in a targeted manner.

 Instructions

Perform the following steps on the destination host in the data zone.

1. Login to the host you want to recover files or directories and promote your user to su or Administrator.

2. Type recover to launch the utility and the following prompt should show up:

   recover>

3. Select the files or directories and perform the recover:

   1. Specify the directory to browse:

      cd path

   2. Select the file or directory for recovery:

      add file_name

   3. To view the files or directory that you marked for recovery, type:

      list

   4. To view the list of the volumes that NetWorker requires to recover the data, type:

      volumes

   5. To recover the files to a location that differs from the original location, type:

      relocate path

4. To start the recovery operation, type:

   recover

5. When the recovery process completes, messages similar to the following appear:

   Received 1 file(s) from NSR server `*****.utoronto.ca' Recover completion time: Wed Apr 12 08:33:04 2024

6. To close the recover program, type quit.

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