Restore Data from the Backup

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This article describes how to restore deleted files from the backup. Firstly remember that after a backup is carried out (generally 02:00 hours every night) the disks are identical. This is not a simple mirroring of one disk to the other, but also an archiving process.

If you create a file and delete it on the same day, it will not be restorable.

If you deletea fileafter a backup, then it will be restorable.

There is an archive facility on the server, but this is not set by default.

Consider three ways that data can be restored.

  • By accessing the file archive on the main disk
  • By accessing the backup disk (the physical second disk)
  • By using the Z1 Backup Control in the Administration Console

Restore Data by Accessing the File Archive

This example assumes you are using Windows XP though the general principal is the same for any OS.
The archive accessed here, resides on the main disk, though it is replicated on the backup disks (as is everything after a backup).

Go to My Computer...
My Network Places...
Microsoft Windows Network...
Open your network i.e. your LAN name
You should then see your server: Z1
Then FileArchive
Note the address \\www\FileArchive\year\month\day\home\common\data

PLEASE NOTE on some older systems files a stored as FileArchive\day rather than FileArchive\year\month\day

File Archive

This gives access to any day, of any month of any year. Once at the required day, going to \home\Common\data takes you tothe shared folder where you will be able to locate any files that have been modified or deleted (these files are Read Only). You will not see any files that are still current.

By Accessing the Backup Disk

\\www\BackupDisk\Shared shows the shared folder, before the last backup. This archive resides on the backup disk.

The Z1 Backup Control in the Administration Console

Log in to your server.
Go to System.
Go to Z1 Mirror Backup Control.

Here you will see Find an old file in the Archive

Enter the name of the file you want to find. Wildcards can be used e.g. file*.doc, file*.bk etc This will return a list of files meeting your search criteria. By clicking on a file in the results list, the folder in which the file resides will open. From here the file can be identified and opened in the normal way.

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