Restoring from a Storage Checkpoint

Mountable data Storage Checkpoints on a consistent and undamaged file system can be used by backup and restore applications to restore either individual files or an entire file system. Restoration from Storage Checkpoints can also help recover incorrectly modified files, but typically cannot recover from hardware damage or other file system integrity problems.

Note:

For hardware or other integrity problems, Storage Checkpoints must be supplemented by backups from other media.

Files can be restored by copying the entire file from a mounted Storage Checkpoint back to the primary fileset. To restore an entire file system, you can designate a mountable data Storage Checkpoint as the primary fileset using the fsckpt_restore command.

See the fsckpt_restore(1M) manual page.

When using the fsckpt_restore command to restore a file system from a Storage Checkpoint, all changes made to that file system after that Storage Checkpoint's creation date are permanently lost. The only Storage Checkpoints and data preserved are those that were created at the same time, or before, the selected Storage Checkpoint's creation. The file system cannot be mounted at the time that fsckpt_restore is invoked.

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Individual files can also be restored very efficiently by applications using the fsckpt_fbmap(3) library function to restore only modified portions of a files data.

You can restore from a Storage Checkpoint only to a file system that has disk layout Version 6 or later.