On Tuesday 11 October 2005 13:42, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Danie Theron wrote:
> > Hi , sorry for the long post :)
> >
> > Wanted to do a test restore , and it seems either my catalog is doing
> > funny things , or I messed up in the Pool defs :
> >
> > Now , correct me if I'm wrong , but shouldn't it use the latest full ,
> > diff , as well as ALL the incr vols?
>
> No. A Restore should use the latest Full, the latest Differential, and
> Incrementals written since that Differential, and ONLY those -- and only
> as many of those Incrementals as is necessary to get the latest version
> of each changed file. That's the entire point of Differentials: that
> you DON'T have to restore every Incremental in the catalog.
Yes, exactly.
In addition, the restore is smart enough to use only the Volumes that are
necessary to restore the latest version of each file. As a simple example, if
you have two Incrementals that save the same files, only the second one will
be used.
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Best regards,
Kern
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