Restoring the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog

Define a job to restore the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog to the original or an alternate location.

About this task

Attention: An IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog restore operation overwrites all data in the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance or alternate virtual appliance location. All IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operations stop while the data is being restored. The user interface is not accessible, and all jobs that are running are canceled. Any snapshots that are created between the backup and restore operations are not saved.

If restoring a cloud backup, the cloud resource or repository server must be registered on the alternate IBM Spectrum Protect Plus location.

When a catalog restore job is started, a job session identifier (ID) is assigned. During the initial phase, the job will be available to be monitored in the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus UI on the job management screen until the recovery step initiates the internal database restore. Once the job enters this state, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is no longer available. During this phase, log information is written to the location: /data/log/catalogprotection/managedb-catalogrestore-time.log, where time is epoch time. Data contained in this log is relates to the restore of the mongo configuration and recovery catalog. After the process is complete, the virgo service will start and the data is written to the virgo log. The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus user interface is again accessible, but the complete loading of job logs is delayed which results in them not being immediately visible in the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus user interface. An alert is generated after the job log recovery is completed.

Procedure

To restore the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog:

  1. In the navigation panel, click Manage Protection > IBM Spectrum Protect Plus > Restore.
  2. Select a vSnap server, cloud resource, or repository server.

    Data can be restored to the same location, or an alternate location in disaster recovery scenarios.

    Available snapshots for the server are displayed.
  3. Click Restore for the catalog snapshot that you want to restore.
  4. Select one of the following restore modes:
    Restore the catalog and suspend all scheduled jobs
    The catalog is restored and all scheduled jobs are left in a suspended state. No scheduled jobs are started, which allows for the validation and testing of catalog entries and the creation of new jobs. Typically, this option is used in DevOps use cases.
    Restore the catalog
    The catalog is restored and all scheduled jobs continue to run as captured in the catalog backup. Typically, this option is used in disaster recovery.
  5. Click Restore.
  6. To run the restore job, in the dialog box, click Yes.