What the restore command recovers

What data can be recovered  

The restore command enables you to recover all the information that you backed up with the dump command so that it is the same as when you did the backup.

The restore command can recover the following data:

• Contents of files and directories
• UNIX file permissions
• Windows NT access control lists (ACLs)

  Note
  If you restore a file that has only UNIX file permissions into an NT file system (NTFS) qtree or volume, the file has no Windows NT ACLs. The filer uses only the UNIX file permissions on this file until you create a Windows NT ACL on it.

• Qtree information

  Note
  Qtree information is used only if a qtree is restored to the root of a volume. If a qtree is restored to a lower directory, such as /vol/vol0/subdir/lowerdir, it ceases to be a qtree and qtree information is not used.

• All other file and directory attributes
• Windows NT streams information

Compatibility  

You can restore data from previous versions of Data ONTAP using the restore command. However, you cannot do an incremental restore to a filer running Data ONTAP 6.2 or later from a filer running a version earlier than 6.2. You need to run the full backup again after you have upgraded.

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