Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide
- Overview of NetBackup OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter components
- About starting the OpsCenter console
- About OpsCenter console components
- About the View pane
- Sizing the Content pane
- About using tables
- Installing OpsCenter
- About planning an OpsCenter installation
- Installing OpsCenter on Windows and UNIX
- About OpsCenter upgrade on Windows and UNIX
- About post-installation tasks
- About uninstalling OpsCenter on Windows and UNIX
- About clustering OpsCenter
- Getting started with OpsCenter
- Administering OpsCenter
- About the services and processes used by OpsCenter
- OpsCenter server scripts on Windows and UNIX
- About OpsCenter database administration
- About backup and restore of OpsCenter and OpsCenter Analytics
- About communication ports and firewall considerations in OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter log files
- Understanding OpsCenter settings
- Setting user preferences
- About managing licenses
- Configuring the data purge period on the OpsCenter Server
- Configuring SMTP server settings for OpsCenter
- Adding host aliases in OpsCenter
- Merging objects (hosts) in OpsCenter
- Modifying tape library information in OpsCenter
- Copying a user profile in OpsCenter
- Setting report export location in OpsCenter
- About managing Object Types in OpsCenter
- About managing OpsCenter users
- About adding AD / LDAP user groups in OpsCenter
- About managing recipients in OpsCenter
- About managing cost analysis and chargeback for OpsCenter Analytics
- Understanding data collection
- About configuring data collection for NetBackup
- About the Breakup Jobs option
- Viewing primary server details and data collection status
- About configuring data collection for NetBackup
- Managing OpsCenter views
- About OpsCenter views
- About managing OpsCenter views
- Managing static views
- Managing dynamic views
- View filters in OpsCenter
- Monitoring NetBackup using OpsCenter
- Controlling the scope of Monitor views
- About monitoring NetBackup using the Overview tab
- About monitoring NetBackup jobs
- Monitor > Services view
- About monitoring Audit Trails
- Managing NetBackup using OpsCenter
- About managing alert policies
- About creating (or changing) an alert policy
- About managing NetBackup storage
- About managing NetBackup devices
- About Operational Restore and Guided Recovery operations
- About Operational Restores from OpsCenter
- About Guided Recovery
- Troubleshooting Guided Recovery
- About managing NetBackup Hosts
- About managing NetBackup Deployment Analysis
- Data compilation for the Capacity License report
- Generating a Capacity Licensing report
- Supporting Replication Director in OpsCenter
- Understanding and configuring OpsCenter alerts
- About using SNMP
- About using SNMP
- Reporting in OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter reports
- Report Templates in OpsCenter
- About managing reports in OpsCenter
- Creating a custom report in OpsCenter
- About managing My Reports
- About managing My Dashboard
- About managing reports folders in OpsCenter
- About managing report schedules in OpsCenter
- About managing time schedules in OpsCenter
- Appendix A. Attributes of NetBackup data
- Appendix B. Man pages for CLIs
- Appendix C. Creating views using CSV, TSV, and XML files
- Appendix D. Error messages in OpsCenter
Browsing for files and directories on a client
You can also browse the protected files and directories on a client. The view allows you to select the client to be browsed and allows you to specify a timeframe for backup selection. You can select only one client at a time. The two pane browse view shows the backed up client directories in the left pane and content of the selected directory in the right pane. The most recent backup in the specified date range is shown by default.
Use the following procedure to browse for files and directories for restore.
To browse for files and directories for restore
- In the OpsCenter console, click Manage > Restore.
- Click Restore Files and Directories under Files and Directories.
- Select Select files or directories > Browse.
- Select a timeframe that you want to search. The default timeframe that is selected is Month.
- Select a view from the Views drop-down list.
- Select a primary server from the Select Primary Server drop-down list.
- Type a client name in the Client box. When you start typing a client name, a list of client names that start with the characters that you entered is displayed. Select a client from this list and then click Select Client.
You can also click Browse and select clients and then browse to select a client. You can browse and select only one client at a time.
The directory structure of the selected client and the contents of the directory are displayed in two panes. From this view, you can browse and select the specific files and directories that you want to restore.
- Click Restore now to start the restore process.
Click Add to Restore Cart if you want to add the selected files and directories to the Restore Cart and restore at a later time.
See Restore Cart.
Click Preview Media to view the media required for the restore operation and to determine the availability of the required media. If the selected backups are all on disk, this option is not applicable. The Preview Media dialog box displays details like Media ID, volume group, and if the media is in library.
- In the Restore Options panel, select the restore options for each individual client.
Click Next.
- In the Summary panel, click Restore to restore all the files or directories.
See Summary panel.