EMC Avamar 6.1 - Limitations

78 EMC Avamar 6.1 for VMware User Guide
Restore
Overview
Avamar offers two levels of restore functionality:
◆ Image restore — restores an entire backup image or selected drives to the original
virtual machine, another existing virtual machine, or a new virtual machine (which is
created during the restore operation).
◆ File level restore — restores specific folders or files from an image backup.
The Avamar Administrator Backup and Restore window Restore tab displays two buttons
above the Select for Restore contents pane, which are not shown if a normal (non-VMware
Image) backup is selected:
Clicking the Browse for Image Restore button initiates an image restore,
which enables you to restore an entire backup image, or selected drives to
the original virtual machine, another existing virtual machine or a new
virtual machine.
Clicking the Browse for Granular Restore button initiates a file level restore,
which enables you to restore selected folders and files from an image
backup.
When performing a VMware image restore, the Restore Options dialog box is slightly
different from the normal (non-VMware Image) Restore Options dialog box. The primary
differences are that virtual machine information is shown and three choices for restore
destinations are offered:
◆ Original virtual machine
◆ Different (existing) virtual machine
◆ New virtual machine
Once the destination selection is made, each procedure varies slightly from that point
forward.
When performing a file level restore, the procedure is substantially the same as restoring
selected folders or files from a normal (non-VMware Image) backup.
Limitations
The following limitations apply to restore operations:
Server software upgrades require proxy reboots
All Avamar server software upgrades require that all proxies be rebooted. The server
software upgrades primarily affect file-level restores (which will not complete until the
proxy is rebooted), but is a good practice to immediately reboot all proxies following any
server software upgrade.
All restores must be initiated from Avamar Administrator
All VMware image restores must be initiated from Avamar Administrator. It is not possible
to initiate restores from the virtual machine or proxy client virtual machine.