Examples of external restore commands

The following table contains examples of external restore commands.
External restore command Action Comments
onbar -r -e Complete external restore In a cold restore, restores everything.

In a warm restore, restores all down noncritical storage spaces.

onbar -r -e -p

onbar -r -l

Physical external restore and separate logical restore If the external backups come from different times, you must perform a logical restore. The system restores the logical logs from the oldest external backup.
onbar -r -e dbspace_list External restore of selected storage spaces and logical logs Use this command in a warm external restore only.
onbar -r -e -p dbspace_list

onbar -r -l

External restore of selected storage spaces and separate logical restore Use this command in a warm external restore only.
onbar -r -e -t datetime External point-in-time (cold) restore Be sure to select a collection of backups from before the specified time.
onbar -r -e rename -p old_path -o old_offset-n new_path -o new_offset External (cold) restore with renamed chunks Use this command to rename chunks in cold external restore only.
onbar -r -e -w

onbar -r -e -p -w

Whole-system external restore When you use onbar -r -e -w -p, back up all storage spaces in one block and unblock session. That way, all storage spaces have the same checkpoint.