There are three steps to restoring data from a vault:

  • Locate
  • Prepare
  • Restore

Locate

Locate the vault's archive time that you wish to restore or restore from.

From either the All Vaults folder or from the cloud account or tape device, open the vault you wish 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 archive times that are available for that day.

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

Prepare

Prepare the point in time for restoring.

The archive time 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.