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Sample VOLSEARCH Restore Job

This sample is based on the following assumptions:

• Full backups were taken on January 1.
• An incremental backup was taken each day from January 2 through 5, for a total of four incremental backups.
• You want to restore the 191 minidisk of a user to the state it was in on January 5.
• Catalogs are not available.
• You know that the most recent backup was the incremental job on January 5, and the first tape in the tape set is B00428.

To execute this VOLSEASRCH restore job, perform the following steps, starting at the System Administrator Main Menu:

1. Select Option 4, Manage job templates.

   CA VM:Backup displays the Manage Job Templates screen.

2. To create a restore template, enter the following command on the command line:

   rcreate/finan96
   

   CA VM:Backup displays the first Work with Restore Template screen for that file.

3. Tab to the Scanning Tapes field and type x.

   Note: Ensure that the Using Catalogs field is blank.

4. Tab to the If Scanning Tapes: Tape Volser field and type the volser of the most recent incremental backup, which is B00428.
5. Type 1 in the DSSN field.
6. Enter the appropriate restore criteria on the remaining screens for the job.

   To have CA VM:Backup confirm that this tape was created on January 5, set the date range as 01/05/2004 00:00 to 01/05/2004 23:59.

   Specify the NEWFILE option so that CA VM:Backup does not restore files that exist on the minidisk.

7. Press the PF9 key (File) to enter the changes.
8. Press the PF4 key (Return) until you exit CA VM:Backup.
9. Submit the VOLSEARCH restore job by entering the following command from CMS:

   vmbackup submit finan96
   

CA VM:Backup mounts tape B00428. CA VM:Backup continues to mount the first tape of each preceding incremental backup until it reaches the first tape in the full backup, which is B00425. Then, CA VM:Backup processes the incremental tapes from the newest to the oldest, and restores the data as it finds it.

Note: If you had specified the REPLACE or CLEAR option, CA VM:Backup would have processed the tapes from the oldest to the newest.

When it has restored the 191 minidisk of the user, CA VM:Backup ends the job. The product sends you the CA VM:Backup restore job detail report and a message saying that the job completed successfully.