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Restore Considerations

Depending on your site's restore requirements and how long you need to have catalogs available, it may be more useful to retain condensed catalogs than to discard them. If a domain-level catalog is available, CA VM:Backup processes only those tapes that contain data for the minidisk, file space, or directory being restored. If no catalog is available, CA VM:Backup requests that one tape from each backup job be mounted before restore processing begins to obtain information about proper tape sequence; these tapes may need to be mounted a second time when CA VM:Backup begins restoring data.