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PERFORMING A RESTORE
To perform the restore, first select the disk you wish to restore to and the SCSI ID for the tape
drive in the SCSI BACKUP FUNCTIONS page.
You need to enter the name of the backup you wish to restore. In the simplest example, the tape
you are restoring from may contain just one backup that uses the default name BACKUP. In this
case, you can just press ENTER to start the restore. If a name other than the default was used,
press SELECT TITLE (F1/F2) to see the names of the backups on the tape. Pressing SELECT
TITLE will show this screen:
Depending on the number of backups on the tape, it could take a while to search the tape for the
different titles. If it contains only one backup, the search should not take long but search time will
increase according to the number of backups on the tape. Press YES (F5) to continue. You will
see this screen:
After a while, you will see this screen:
Here, you see a list of all the backups on the tape and the number of files (cues/clips) contained
within them. In this case, there are just three backups. If more than five backups exist on the
tape, up/down arrows will appear to indicate that there are items ‘off screen’ that you may select.
Use the DATA +/- keys to move the cursor to the one you want to restore and press ENTER. The
backup will be selected and you will be taken back to the main SCSI RESTORE page:
The easiest restore to perform is when a tape has just one backup on it. In this case, simply
select ALL PROJS & LIBS and press ENTER. Regardless of the type of backup you performed
on this tape, any projects and libraries found on the tape will be restored.
Similarly, if the tape contains just one backup of only libraries, you can still use the ALL PROJS
& LIBS selection - if the DD8 doesn’t find any projects, it will ignore this and will restore only the
libraries it finds. The same would be true of projects. If the tape only contains projects, even
though ALL PROJS & LIBS is selected as the restore type, if it can’t find any libraries, it will just
continue, restoring only the projects.
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