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230 Backup, restore, and recovery
Aborting FSE backup
To abort an ongoing FSE backup process, you need to abort the backup job. In certain cases, aborting the
fsebackup command itself is also required. Perform the steps:
1. Run the fsejob command to abort the FSE backup job. You must specify the backup job ID:
For information on determining job IDs, see section ”Listing FSE jobs” on page 157.
2. In the window where fsebackup was invoked, press CTRL+C to abort fsebackup.
NOTE: This step is not required if tape was specified as the only backup destination, and the FSE
backup job was waiting for resources at the moment you aborted it.
Restor e
Before you start using the FSE restore feature, you need to know its purpose, prerequisites for starting FSE
restore, and course of the restore process.
You also need to be familiar with the FSE directory layout. For more information, see appendix ”Directory
layout” on page 291.
What is FSE restore?
FSE restore is a process in the FSE implementation that copies a backup image from the specified restore
source to a local directory, and performs automatic recreation of entities on the FSE server using data from
the backup image. The restore source can be either local or remote disk volume, remote share, or backup
FSE medium that is already loaded in an FSE drive. The restore process reverts completely the state of the
FSE server, including all configured FSE partitions, to the point in time when the backup image was
created.
You can use FSE restore to recover an FSE server, on which disaster occurred and affected FSE databases
and system files. For exact list of entities that are recreated with FSE restore, see section ”Backup” on
page 221.
IMPORTANT: FSE restore cannot recover data on HSM file systems or in Hierarchical Storage
Management Databases (HSMDBs), since these entities are not backed up during FSE backup sessions.
For information on how to recover HSM file systems, see section ”Recovery”, subsection
”HSM file system
recovery
” on page 236.
NOTE: An alternative way of restoring a particular File System Catalogs that is either missing or corrupt is
the File System Catalog recovery. For details, see section ”Recovery”, subsection ”File System Catalog
recovery” on page 235.
How it works?
You need to ensure that the prerequisites are met and consider the restore process, before you start
restoring the FSE implementation.
[1204 2005/10/28 11:52:53] Partitions part3: FSC journal files deleted.
[1204 2005/10/28 11:52:53] Finished deleting FSC journal files for all partitions.
[1204 2005/10/28 11:52:53] Set operation COMPLETE.
[1204 2005/10/28 11:52:53] Backup job 20051028000218 is removed
[1204 2005/10/28 11:52:53] Backup finished.
fsejob --abort BackupJobID