Restoring a Database without Journal Archiving

This section describes how to restore a database if no journal archiving was enabled for the last backup.

To restore an entire database from a backup, follow these steps:

1. Log into the Admin Interface as a user with the admin role.

2. Click Databases in the left tree menu. A list of databases appears.

3. Click your target database.

4. Click the Backup/Restore tab.

5. Scroll to the Restore section.

6. Enter the directory in which the backup exists in the Restore from directory field.

7. If the backup was encrypted, enter the Encryption password.

   Note:
   
   If you enter a directory that contains multiple backups of the same database, then the latest one is used. If you want to choose a particular backup to restore, then enter the date_stamp subdirectory corresponding to the backup you want to restore. For details of the directory structure, see Backup Directory Structure.

8. If you have configured forests for local-disk failover, and you want to restore the replica forests from the backup, then set Include replica forests to true. To use this option, you must have enabled the Include replica forests option when you backed up. See Configuring Local-Disk Failover for a Forest in Scalability, Availability, and Failover.

9. To restore an incremental backup, set Use incremental backup to true.

   Note:
   
   If you restore from an incremental backup, then you cannot use the previous full backup location for ongoing incremental backups. You must make a fresh full backup after the restore and use the full backup location for the ongoing incremental backups. After doing a restore from an incremental backup, any scheduled backups need to be updated to use the new full backup location.

10. Leave Use journal archive set to false.

11. Click OK. The Confirm restore page appears and lists all the forests selected for restoring. It also lists the date that the backup was performed and the server version used for the backup that you selected.

    By default, all of the forests associated with a database are checked to restore. If you do not want to restore all of the forests, then deselect any forests that you do not want to restore.

    Note:
    
    If you deselect any of the forests to restore, then you might not be restoring a completely consistent view of the database. Deselect forests only if you are sure that you understand the implications of what you are restoring. To guarantee the exact same view of the database, restore all of the forests associated with the database, including the Schemas and Security database forests.

12. Click OK to begin the restore operation.

    The Restores table lists when the restore was started, provides an estimate of the amount of time left, and lists other status information about the restore operation.

When the restore is complete, the Restores table entry disappears. If the status for any of the forests was something besides “completed,” then an error occurred during the restore operation. Check the Mark_Logic_Data/Logs/ErrorLog.txt file for any errors, correct them, and try the restore operation again.