About restoring a backup set enabled for true image restore

If backup sets are enabled for true image restore, you can choose restore selections from a view of the volume as it existed at the time of the selected backup.

You can also choose true image restore selections from a duplicate backup set. Then, if the backup set on the disk becomes unavailable, you can make true image restore selections from the duplicate backup set on the tape. Backup Exec automatically selects the most suitable duplicate backup sets that are available.

Backup Exec uses the following order of preference to choose the most suitable duplicate backup sets:

  • A backup set in a backup-to-disk folder.

  • A backup set that is on a tape already in a drive, or in a slot of a robotic library.

  • Any other known duplicate copy.

Note:

Only backup sets created by Backup Exec version 12.5 or later are supported for true image restore. When a previous version of the Remote Agent is used, you can still select backup sets to be restored from a true image view, but the restore operation performs traditional restores of backup sets. The restore operation starts from the prior full backup and processes incremental backups forward to the selected backup set. Deleted and renamed files are also restored. A message in the job log informs you that true image restore was not performed, but that all appropriate backup sets were automatically selected.

A unique icon represents the true image backup sets. Each true image backup set shows the entire selection list as it appeared on disk when the backup ran. Different icons distinguish between the objects backed up in the viewed backup job and objects backed up in previous backups.

You can find a list of true image restore icons that appear at the following URL:

http://entsupport.symantec.com/umi/V-269-12

See Selecting backup sets that are enabled for true image restore.

More Information

About true image restore

Requirements for true image restore

About true image catalogs

About duplicate backup set templates

About restoring a backup set enabled for true image restore