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VSS and the Restore Manager

Arcserve Backup allows you to restore data to most computers attached to your Windows network. When used to manage Writer restore jobs, the Restore Manager lets you browse Writers and Components available on local and remote computers. The Writers appear at the same level as volumes, system state, and other agents. Expand a Writer to reveal its associated Components.

Any Writer displayed in the Restore Manager can be selected to be restored but Components can only be selected if they can be restored separately. The valid restore methods for the Writer are specified in the writer metadata document created at the time of the restore operation.

Each restore job requires a source and destination. The files selected as your source must originate from media controlled by Arcserve Backup, and the destination must be a hard drive.

The Restore Manager dialog provides three tabs to customize your restore job: