Adding options to the restore job

SCO ARCserve/Open provides four advanced restore options:


To add restore options to a job:

  1. On the Restore Manager toolbar, click the Restore Options button.

    The Restore Options dialog box will appear.

  2. Select the options you want included with the restore job.


The options available to restore jobs are ``Create Empty Directories'', ``Preserve Directory Space Restrictions'', and ``Preserve User Space Restrictions'':



Pre/Post Execution

The Pre/Post Job Execution option allows you to run a command or script on the SCO ARCserve/Open host before and/or after the restore job is executed.

You can run the following:

For example, you may want to stop a database server before restoring it, then restart it after SCO ARCserve/Open restores the database server.

To specify the command or script to run, simply enter the name of the command or script in the Before Job Execution and/or After Job Execution fields.

Make sure that the path to the command you want to run is correct, or you enter the path before the command. For example, in the above box, the user wants to stop the database before restoring any data. If the command: database stop was in the db directory, then the user would have to enter: /db/database stop.


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