There are three steps to restoring data from a vault:

  • Locate
  • Prepare
  • Restore


Locate

Locate the vault's restore point to restore or restore from.


From either the All Cloud Vaults folder or the All Tape Vaults folder, open the vault to restore from and then open its Archives folder. When you click on the archive you want to restore from you will be presented with a calendar showing the current day of the current month. Dates of the month that are in bold font are days when the store vaulting task has been run. Clicking on one of those dates will show the restore points that are available for that day.


The Status column shows 'Available, Vaulted' or 'Offline, Vaulted'. The status 'Available, Vaulted' means that the restore point can be viewed and explored or restored because the storage containing that restore point is currently online and available. The Status 'Offline, Vaulted' means that the storage containing that restore point is not available.

Prepare

Prepare the restore point for restoring.


The restore point that is presented is from the cache. (See Configure Vaulting.) Although you can explore it in the cache by clicking the Explore button, the actual data is not available until it has been restored from the vault to the cache by clicking the Prepare button.


Note: If you do try restoring before it has been prepared, the restore job will fail with errors like 'The content store is not consistent' and 'The system cannot find the file specified' logged in the log file.


Note: If you try opening a file through the Point-in-Time Explorer (Explore button) before the point in time has been prepared you will see a message like 'The file cannot be accessed by the system'.

Restore

Restore the data.


After preparing the point in time for restoring, you can restore as you would from a store. See Restoring Your Data for more information.