restore

Use the restore command to restore the system to its previous configuration. This command uses the configuration files in the /tmp folder .

Syntax

Parameters

-f | force: (Optional) Forces continued processing where possible.
-q | quiet: (Optional) Suppresses console output (STDOUT).
-prepare -fmt | fmtdisk: (Optional) Verifies the current configuration against the information in svc.config.backup.json, prepares commands for processing in svc.config.restore.sh, and produces a log of events in svc.config.restore.prepare.
-execute: (Optional) Runs the command script svc.config.restore.sh, and produces a log of events in svc.config.restore.execute.log.
-fmt: (Optional) Specifies that the volume must be formatted before use. Includes the -fmtdisk option on all mkvdisk commands to be issued. You cannot specify -fmt with -execute.
-startline line_number: (Optional) A child parameter of -execute in the svcconfig restore which command allows recovery to resume from a specified line in the generated commands file.
-fmtdisk: (Optional) Specifies that the volume must be formatted before use. You cannot specify -fmtdisk with -execute.
-v on | off: (Optional) Produces verbose output (on); the default is regular output (off).

Description

The restore command restores the target system configuration from the svc.config.backup.xml file in the /tmp folder. If neither the -prepare nor the -execute option is specified, the command performs both phases in sequence, producing only a single event log: svc.config.restore.log.

The restore operation is also known as a T4 (Tier 4) Recovery, and can only be used on a system having just been started. The restore operation can not be used on a system having any nonautomatic objects configured, such as storage pools or volumes.

The restore operation is performed in two phases: prepare and execute.

The command pauses for eight minutes if any nodes are added during this process, informing the user of this at run-time.

An invocation example

svcconfig restore

The resulting output:

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