VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 User's Guide - VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (September 2004)

Volume Tasks
Preparing to Restore a Volume From Backup
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Preparing to Restore a Volume From Backup
The Volume Prepare Restore procedure stops the volume, sets the
volume to an uninitialized state, and restarts the volume (without
resynchronizing the volume mirrors). The volume can then be reloaded
from backup.
This procedure is intended for raw image backups and is not appropriate
for file system backups. This procedure is useful for disaster recovery. If
the data on a volume is corrupted and you know that you need to restore
the volume from backup, you can use this procedure to prepare the
volume for restoration.
To prepare a volume for a restore from backup
Step 1. Select the volume to be restored from backup.
Step 2. Choose Volumes > Prepare For Restore.
Step 3. Complete the Prepare Volume For Restore dialog box as follows:
After you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click
OK. After you have completed this task, you can restore the volume data
from backup.
NOTE If the volume contains a mounted file system, the file system must be
unmounted before this task can proceed. This task does not remount the
file system.
Volume(s): If the correct volume name does not already
display in this field, enter the volume name.