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 storage system 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. You can perform an incremental restore to a storage system running data ONTAP 6.2 or later using data backed up from a storage system running a version of Data ONTAP earlier than 6.2 by doing one of the following:

Perform a level 0 restore and incremental restores before you upgrade to Data ONTAP 6.2 or later.
Perform a level 0 restore and incremental restores after you upgrade to Data ONTAP 6.2 or later.

Performing a level 0 restore, upgrading Data ONTAP software, then performing incremental restores will not restore the incremental backups because they are in a different format from the level 0 restore. If you do this, you have to repeat the level 0 restore before you can restore incremental backups.