Administration Guide › Managing Restore Job Template Files › Creating or Updating Restore Job Template Files › Specifying Formatting Options › If Not Formatting

If Not Formatting

If you do not format the minidisk, select one of the following options to indicate how the data is to be restored:

Newfile

This option specifies that CA VM:Backup restores only those files that do not exist on the minidisk. This option is the default.

Replace

This option specifies that CA VM:Backup restores all files from the backed-up minidisk. For any existing file that has the same name as a file to restore, the job performs the following actions:

1. Writes the data to a work file
2. Erases the existing file from the minidisk
3. Renames the work file to the original filename

If the restore job does not complete successfully, the job leaves the existing file intact and erases the work file.

Important! When you select Replace, ensure that there is sufficient free space on the minidisk for CA VM:Backup to create a copy of each file in the free space before it erases the existing versions.

Erase

This option specifies that the job restore all files from the backed-up minidisk. If a file exists that has the same name as a file to restore, the job deletes the existing file before restoring the backed-up version.

Important! If the restore job does not complete successfully, both the existing file and the file being restored can be lost.