Restoring a Cloud Backup (BUI)

Cloud backups can be restored on any Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance system that has access to the cloud target. When a cloud backup with the zfs format contains a snapshot with a retention hold, that hold is preserved when the cloud backup is restored. Therefore, that snapshot and the share containing the snapshot cannot be deleted until the retention hold is released. However, filesystems, LUNs, and other snapshots within the share can be modified or deleted. For information about modifying a snapshot retention hold, see Editing a Snapshot Retention Policy (BUI).

Filesystem snapshots that contain files created with the file retention feature (not the snapshot retention feature) are subject to the rules governing file retention. For information, see Planning Guidelines for File Retention.

Filesystem cloud backups created with the tar format can be restored on Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance or on any system, regardless of its operating system, that can access the cloud target. After restoring a tar cloud backup on Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, set the filesystem's properties, as described in Editing a Filesystem or LUN (BUI). If the filesystem snapshot had a retention hold, that property is not preserved. To set a retention hold, see Editing a Snapshot Retention Policy (BUI).

From the Configuration menu, select Services, then Cloud.
Click the Backups tab.
Find the cloud backup to be restored, and click its restore icon .
In the Restore Backup dialog box, select a pool and project. Either enter a new local share name to which to restore the dataset, or select Use existing share and enter an existing local share name.

For a full (parent) cloud backup, if you enter a share name that has a parent snapshot in it, the parent snapshot is overwritten.

For an incremental cloud backup, you can enter the same share name that has the parent snapshot. If you later repeat restoring an incremental cloud backup into the same share that has the parent snapshot, the old incremental snapshot is overwritten.
Click APPLY.

After clicking APPLY, a Restore Details dialog box is displayed, and dynamically shows the restore transfer rate, amount of data transferred, and status in-progress. The status changes to completed after completion. If the read limit property was set for the cloud target, the read traffic bandwidth is limited to the set value when restoring the cloud backup from the cloud target. Click OK to close the dialog box.
To view further progress details, including the completion percentage, from the Configuration menu, select Services, then Cloud, and click the Jobs tab.

The Jobs list contains active and recently completed jobs in the cloud data service, and is in chronological order. The Updates column contains the date and time that the job was created/updated, and the date and time that the restore was started. The Status column indicates the completion percentage, the amount of data transferred, and the restore transfer rate.
To view job details, click on the job in the Jobs list.

Click OK to close the dialog box.
After the restore operation has completed, you can view cloud backup details:
1. From the Configuration menu, select Services, then Cloud.
2. Click the Backups tab.
  
  The Backups list contains completed cloud backups, and is in chronological order.
3. Double-click on the cloud backup that was just restored.
4. After viewing the Backup Details dialog box, click OK.