WBAdmin Start Recovery
Runs a recovery operation to restore items from a earlier backup operation.
This action only applies to Windows Server 2008/Server 2008 R2.
Settings
Version
The version identifier of the backup to restore. To get the correct version identifier you can use the WBAdmin Get Versions action.
Item Type
Select the type of items to recover. Options are Volume, App or File.
Items
Specify the items to restore. If item type is Volume or App then only a single item may be specified. Volumes can be specified via a drive letter, volume mount point or GUID based volume name.
Backup Target
The storage location that contains the backup you want to restore.
Machine
When the Backup Target is remote share that contains backups for multiple machines allows you to specify the name of the machine you want to restore.
Recovery Target
Specify the location where you want to restore items to. Only use this if you want to restore to a different location to the location that was backed up.
Overwrite
This option is only available when recovering files. Allows you to set the behaviour when a file to be recovered already exists in the destination location. There are three options available:
Skip - Don't restore the file and continue restoration with next file.
Create Copy - Creates a copy of the existing file so that the existing file is not overwritten.
Overwrite - The existing file is overwritten with the file from the backup.
Recursive
This option is only available when recovering files. Performs a recursive restore of files and directories.
Don't Restore ACLs
This option is only available when recovering files. Prevents security access control lists from being restored.
Skip Bad Cluster Check
This option is only available when recovering volumes. Disables check of destination volume for bad clusters before performing restore.
No Roll Forward
This option is only available when recovering applications. Allows for previous point-in-time recovery of an application.
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