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11 Restoring Files

This chapter describes the RESTORE process and options. You RESTORE a ﬁle by transferring

it from a STORE backup to disk. You might need to RESTORE a single ﬁle, for example, when

a user accidentally deletes it. You might restore all the ﬁles in an account after you have

permanently archived the account ofﬂine, deleted the ﬁles, and a user needs access to the

ﬁles again. After a major system failure, you might need to RESTORE all of your ﬁles from

backups.

NOTE

Restoring from sequential devices is supported in all STORE and

TurboSTORE products. However, if you want to restore from parallel devices,

you must have either TurboSTORE/iX II (B5151AA) or TurboSTORE/iX 7x24

True-Online Backup (B5152AA).

This chapter describes step-by-step procedures for restoring ﬁles with RESTORE. The

sections in this chapter are as follows:

• Preparing to Restore Files

• Restoring Different Format Tapes

• Referencing Files in a RESTORE Command

• Issuing a RESTORE Command

• Restoring from Labeled Tapes

• Restoring from Single Devices

• Restoring from Multiple Devices (RESTORESET)

• Restoring Files from a Disk File

• RESTORE Command Options

• Monitoring RESTORE Command Progress

• When RESTORE is Complete

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Do not use RESTORE to transfer any of the ﬁles originally on your system load

tape from LDEV 1 to a system disk other than LDEV 1. These ﬁles are

contained in the SYS account and can be displayed by entering the SY

conﬁgurator of the SYSGEN utility and using the SHOW command.

• Do not purge or put a lockword on these ﬁles.

• Do not use any command other than SYSGEN to manage the ﬁles within a

conﬁguration group. These conﬁguration ﬁles come as a set and individual