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Starting Special SFS and BFS Restores

This chapter describes how to define and submit jobs to restore SFS and BFS data by using the following options:

• Option 7, Submit special SFS/BFS restores, on the System Administrator Main Menu. This option restores the following items:
  • SFS and the BFS file spaces
  • User storage groups
  • File pools
• Option 9, Perform user functions, on the System Administrator Main Menu. This option restores BFS directories for you or another user.

When you restore data using these screens, ensure that a catalog is available. If no catalog is available, use TPI to restore SFS and BFS data.

When you specify the name of a file pool on any of the SFS/BFS restore screens, ensure that the specified file pool is available. To restore to a file pool, the CA VM:Backup service virtual machine must be enrolled as an administrator of the file pool. You can identify file pool names to CA VM:Backup in the following locations:

• On the Identify SFS File Pools screen
• In a FILEPOOL configuration file record in the VMBACKUP CONFIG file

For more information, see Identifying SFS File Pools or the "FILEPOOL Record" section in the System Programmer Reference Guide.

When you restore encrypted data using these screens, ensure that a security key is available. For each encrypted file space that you restore, enter the security key. You can enter only eight characters at a time. CA VM:Backup displays the following prompts until the entire key is entered:

• VMBBSF0896R Enter the first eight characters of the security key that was used when the files were backed up, or "QUIT":
• VMBBSF0897R Enter the next eight characters of the key, or "QUIT":

If you are restoring more than one or two encrypted file spaces, use TPI to restore encrypted SFS and BFS data. If you use TPI, you do not enter the security key multiple times. The TPI restore job must include an exception file that specifies an OPTIONS record with the security key.

This section contains the following topics:

Restoring a File Space

Restoring a User Storage Group

Restoring a File Pool

Restoring BFS Directories