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Specify the Recovery Point

Each time that you perform a backup, a recovery point is created. Specify the recovery point information in the Restore Wizard so that you can recover the exact data that you want. You can restore specific files or all files depending on your requirement.

Note: If you have selected Source local as your backup destination, the Backup Server cannot connect to the Source local directly. To access the Source local, you have to perform additional configurations.

To restore files from Source local, follow these steps:

1. Share the backup destination (Source local) and ensure that the Backup server can connect to the backup destination.
2. Add the shared destination as the backup storage location to the Backup server.

Now, Source local behaves as an NFS backup storage location and you can restore files from the share.

Follow these steps:

1. Access the Restore Wizard in one of the following ways:
   • From Arcserve UDP:
     1. Log in to Arcserve UDP.
     2. Click the resources tab.
     3. Select All Nodes in the left pane.

        All the added nodes are displayed in the center pane.

     4. In the center pane, select the node and click Actions.
     5. Click Restore from the Actions dropdown menu.

        The Arcserve UDP Agent (Linux) web interface opens. The restore type selection dialog is displayed in the Agent UI.

     6. Select the restore type and click OK.

        Note: You are automatically logged in to the agent node and the Restore Wizard opens from the agent node.

   • From Arcserve UDP Agent (Linux):
     1. Open the Arcserve UDP Agent (Linux) web interface.

        Note: During the installation of Arcserve UDP Agent (Linux), you received the URL to access and manage the server. Log in to Arcserve UDP Agent (Linux).

     2. Click Restore from the Wizard menu and select Restore File.

        Restore Wizard - File Restore opens.

2. Click Next.

   The Recovery Points page of the Restore Wizard opens. The recent recovery point is selected.

   

3. Select a session from the Session Location drop-down list, if you want to restore another session, and enter the full path of the share.

   For example, consider the Session Location as NFS share, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx as the IP address of the NFS share, and the folder name is Data. You would enter xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/Data as the NFS share location.

   Note: If the backed up data is stored in Source local, then you must first convert the source node to an NFS server, and then share the session location.

4. Click Connect.

   All the nodes that have been backed up to this location get listed in the Machine drop-down list.

5. Select the node that you want to restore from the Machine drop-down list.

   All the recovery points of the selected node get listed.

6. Apply the date filter to display the recovery points that are generated between the specified date and click Search.

   Default: Recent two weeks.

   All the recovery points available between the specified dates are displayed.

7. Select the recovery point that you want to restore and click Add. If the recovery point is encrypted, enter the encryption password to restore data.

   The Browse-<node name> dialog opens.

   

8. Select the files and folders that you want to restore and click OK.

   Note: If you try to locate a file or folder using the Search field, ensure that you select the highest folder in the hierarchy. The search is conducted on all the child folders of the selected folder.

   The Browse-<node name> dialog closes and you return to the Recovery Points page. The selected files and folders are listed under Files/Folders to be restored.

9. Click Next.

   The Target Machine page opens.

The recovery point is specified.