Restoring Individual Files

To restore speci￿ed ￿les from a local device using SAM, ￿rst y ou will need to have the following information and materials:

A list of ￿les y ou need.

The media on whic h the data resides.

The location on y our system to restore the ￿les (original location or relative to some other location).

The device and device ￿le for restoring the data.

Note To restore data to disks ph ysically connected to another

 

 

system, enter the Remote Administration functional area

 

 

 

of SAM.

 

 

 

When restoring ￿les that are NFS moun ted to your system,

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frecover can only restore those ￿les ha ving \other user"

 

 

 

 

 

write permission. The frecover command normally

 

 

 

operates in user-mode when crossing NFS moun t points; not

 

 

 

root-mode. To ensure that frecover can restore the ￿les

 

 

 

exported from the NFS serv er, login as root on the NFS ￿le

 

 

 

server and use the root= option to the /usr/etc/exportfs

 

 

 

command to export the correct permissions. Refer to

 

 

 

exportfs (1M) in the HP-UX Reference and the Installing and

 

 

 

Administering NFS Servic es manual.

 

 

 

 

 

To restore individual ￿les:

1.Ensure that y ou have root capabilities.

2.Run SAM; type:

/usr/bin/sam

3.Choose Backup and Recovery

4.Choose Backup Devices .

5.Highlight the device in the list from whic h the data is to be restored.

Backing Up, Restoring, and Updating Your Software 5-7

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