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Displaying the Status and Output of the Restore
The restore will begin, and the status report screen, as shown below, will appear automatically. Listed on the
screen will be a status line for the backup previously selected. Information pertaining to the progress and
performance of the restore will be updated as the data from the backup is read. If the backup selected was not
the first backup on the media, the process will need to fast-forward over the prior backups before reading the
data. Fast-forwarding a tape backup is much faster than reading through all the data.
Note that this screen may not be closed as long as the restore is running. It must remain on the screen after the
restore completes, after which time it may be closed by pressing the
. Once the screen is closed,
the restore status and output messages may not be redisplayed.
To view the output of the restore process, press the
Show Output
button at the bottom of the screen. An output
screen similar to the following will then appear, showing the output and status messages of the restore:
If the restore is of any backup type containing filesystem data, the files will be listed on the screen as they are
restored. For Logical Volume (AIX/Linux), Partition (Linux), Meta-disk (Linux/Solaris), Slices or ZFS
Volumes (Solaris), only one message is displayed as each raw device data is restored. This screen may be
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