Preparing to use the restore command

Getting required materials

Required information  

Before restoring data with the restore command, you must have the following information:

• The level of the restore
• The tape device you used for each tape file in the backup that you are restoring
• The path into which you are restoring the material
• The blocking factor used in the backup

Required tape drives and tapes  

You must meet these prerequisites for the restore command to run successfully:

• If you are doing an incremental restore, you need all the tapes in the backup chain.
• You need a tape drive that is available and compatible with the tape to be restored from.

Required space on destination filer  

You need about 100 MB more space on the destination filer than the amount of data to be restored.

Caution
The restore command terminates if it runs out of space.

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