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/home/picture.gif
/home/anthony/myfiles/picture.gif
These are not found because these files are not in a single sub-directory of /home as indicated by the
wildcard filename (/home/*/*.gif). To restore these files you would need to also include “/home/*.gif” and
“/home/*/*/*.gif” in the list of files to restore.
To understand the use of wildcards in the restore, you need only understand how to list files on the system.
Any files that are listed on the system when you type:
ls /home/*/*.gif
This would be restored when using this same notation in the list of files to restore.
Restoring Data to a New Destination
When restoring files or directories from a System, Volume Group, Filesystem or File/Directory backup, you may
enter a new destination directory in the Destination field. When restoring a single logical volume, partition or
meta-disk to restore, you may enter a new device name into which to restore the data.
If restoring a single filesystem, or specific files or directories from a System, Volume Group, ZFS Pool or
Filesystem backup and you want to restore to a different directory, the files will be restored relative to the
original filesystem mount point. For example, if you are restoring data from the /data1 filesystem into the /data2
directory, the /data1/info/stuff file will be restored to /data2/info/stuff.
If restoring multiple filesystems from a System, Volume Group, ZFS Pool or Filesystem backup, the files from
each filesystem will be restored to different directories under the new destination directory. This is to protect
against the same filename from different filesystems being restored to the same location. For example, when
restoring the /data1 and /data2 filesystems to the /datanew directory, the files will be restored to
/datanew/data1 and /datanew/data2 respectively.
If restoring from a File/Directory backup, the data will be restored relative to the file’s full path name. For
example, if restoring the /data1/info/stuff file to the /data2 directory, the resulting file will be
/data2/data1/info/stuff.
When restoring a single logical volume, the new logical volume name must already exist, may not currently be
in use by any process, and must have been created at least as large as the original logical volume.
Using an Alternate Network to Restore from the Server
When using Network Edition, it may at times be desirable to have the client restore the data using a different
network to communicate with the server than is used by default. For instance, if there are multiple networks
available for reaching the server from the client, or if the client cannot communicate with the server using the
default network (defined by the server’s hostname and network routing configuration of the client), you can
choose to restore using the alternate network.
If an alternate network IP Address or hostname was defined for the server you are restoring from, an addition
option will be available on the restore options screen above, "Alternate Server Network". If you want to use
the alternate network to perform the restore, select a server hostname or IP address from the list. Note that this
option will not appear if there was no alternate IP address or hostname setup for the server. To set the alternate
IP address or hostname for a server, refer to
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