smsrestore(1M) restores the operational environment of the SMS from a backup file created by smsbackup(1M). Use smsrestore to restore the SMS environment after the SMS software has been installed on a new disk.

Turn off failover and stop SMS before running smsrestore, start SMS and turn on failover, if you wish, afterwards. For information on manually starting and stopping SMS refer to the System Management Services (SMS) 1.2 Installation Guide and Release Notes for the Sun Fire 15K/12 Systems.

If any errors occur, smsrestore writes error messages to /var/sadm/system/logs/smsrestore.

The following option is supported.

-h

Help. Displays usage descriptions. Note – Use alone. Any option specified in addition to -h is ignored.

The following operands are supported:

filename

Name of the backup file that was created by smsbackup(1M). If the specified file is not in the current directory, the filename must contain the full path name for the file. This file can reside anywhere on the system, connected network or tape device. If no filename is specified, you will receive an error.

Group Privileges Required

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion

>0

An error occurred.

The following file is used by this command:

/var/sadm/system/logs/smsrestore

smsrestore log file

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

smsbackup(1m)