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Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2019-02-18

Product(s): NetBackup (8.1.1)

Platform: Linux,UNIX,Windows

About mapping and unmapping volumes

The wizard that appears for mapping volumes depends on what you select to map. These wizards guide you through the mapping process.

The mapping is saved between sessions, so you can stop mapping and then resume later. (If you map during a dissimilar disk restore process and you click OK to close the Change Configuration dialog box, the DDR restore process continues.)

If an element is mapped or unmapped, all the elements that are contained in it are mapped or unmapped.

The main options are as follows:

Initialize	Opens a dialog box where you can select a configuration to import into the New Volume Layout window. Only the disk information from the configuration is imported. Use this option to initialize the configuration with the layout of the new disks so you can begin mapping.
Unmap All	Removes all mapped elements in the New Volume Layout and changes all elements in the Original Volume Layout window to Unmapped.

Note:

The mapping wizards do not let you reduce the size of a volume or partition to less than the required space to restore files.

The following notes apply to UNIX and Linux DDR:

Shared disks in a cluster are marked restricted.
Unused VxVM disks on Solaris clients are marked restricted.
You cannot map Linux LVM volume groups with the physical volumes that are created on top of multi-devices with the same configuration. The physical volumes are mapped to either disks or partitions but not a multi device.

The following notes apply to Windows DDR:

The system drive is always mapped and cannot be moved; however, you can resize it if you map disks before the restore.
Original disks and their volumes that were clustered cannot be mapped.
The discovered disks that have the same disk signature as an original disk that was clustered cannot be mapped.

Table: Volume mapping actions describe possible volume mapping actions.

Table: Volume mapping actions

Action	Description
Initialize	Opens a dialog box from which you can select a configuration to import into the New Volume Layout window. Only the disk information from the configuration is imported.
Fast Map	Evaluates the original configuration and maps source disks to disks in the target configuration that have the necessary attributes.
Unmap All	Removes all mapped elements in the target configuration and changes all elements in the original configuration to Unmapped.
Map	Right-click an element in the Table View of the Original Volume Layout window and select Map from the shortcut menu. The mapping wizard starts for the selected element (except main element Disk Group, Disks, Volumes, Volume Sets, and so on).
Map Volume	Right-click a volume in the Disk View of the Original Volume Layout window and select Map Volume from the shortcut menu. The mapping wizard starts for the selected element.
Map Volume Group	Right-click a volume group in the Disk View of the Original Volume Layout window and select Map Volume Group from the shortcut menu. The mapping wizard starts for the selected element.
Map Disk	Right-click a disk in the Disk View of the Original Volume Layout window and select Map Disk from the shortcut menu. The mapping wizard starts for the selected element.
Map Disk Group	Right-click a disk group in the Disk View of the Original Volume Layout window and select Map Disk Group from the shortcut menu. The mapping wizard starts for the selected element.
Restrict	(Veritas Cluster Server only.) Right-click an element in the Original Volume Layout window and select Restrict from the shortcut menu.
Remove Restriction	(Veritas Cluster Server only. ) Right-click an element in the New Volume Layout window and select Restrict from the shortcut menu to map the disk.