Redirecting Restored Files

LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service provides options for controlling the destination of restored files. By default, LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service restores files to their original location (volume and directory) on the computer.

• If the original directory does not exist, LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service recreates the directory as part of the restore process.

• If the original volume does not exist, the restore process fails and a message is logged in the restore job log.

Optionally, you can redirect the restored files to a different location on the computer.

You can also specify that LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service recreate the original directory structure of the restored files, or place all the restored files in a single directory.

Note: You must restore files to local fixed drives on a computer. LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service does not support restores to mapped network drives.

To redirect restored files

1. In the redirect restore options section of the Options tab on the Computer Restore form, use the Redirect restored files to a different location check box to specify whether to restore the files to a different location:

   • Select the check box to restore the files to a different location on the computer.

   • Clear the check box to restore the files to their original location (volume and directory) on the computer.

2. Specify whether to preserve the restored files' directory structure in the destination location:

   • Click Preserve directories to restore the entire directory structure of the restored files into the directory specified in the Path to restore to box (see the next step). This will include the full parent pathname from the root as well as all of the selected subdirectories.

   • Click Don't preserve directories to restore all of the selected files directly into the directory specified in the Path to restore to box (see the next step), regardless of their original placement in subdirectories. All the restored files are placed in the specified directory without their old directory structure.

3. Type the full path in which you want to restore the files on your computer in the Path to restore to box. For example, if you want the directory structure to be inserted below the C: root, type C:\

Redirected restore examples

For example, assume you choose the following files to restore:

C:\MyDocuments\Presentations\Sales1.ppt

C:\MyDocuments\Presentations\Sales2.ppt

C:\MyDocuments\Collateral\Datasheet.doc

Also assume you choose to redirect the files into the destination directory:

C:\Common

The placement of the restored files depends on whether or not you choose to preserve the directory structure:

• If you choose Preserve directories, the result is:

  C:\Common\MyDocuments\Presentations\Sales1.ppt
  C:\Common\MyDocuments\Presentations\Sales2.ppt
  C:\Common\MyDocuments\Collateral\Datasheet.doc

• If you choose Don't preserve directories, the result is:

  C:\Common\Sales1.ppt
  C:\Common\Sales2.ppt
  C:\Common\Datasheet.doc

You must choose to either maintain the entire directory structure (which includes the original root directory), or none of the directory structure. You cannot restore an identical directory structure without increasing the depth of the directory structure in the destination location. For example, you cannot achieve the following result from this redirected restore example:

C:\Common\Presentations\Sales1.ppt
C:\Common\Presentations\Sales2.ppt
C:\Common\Collateral\Datasheet.doc

NTFS-only file properties are lost if file is restored to a FAT partition

If you restore an NTFS file to a FAT partition, all NTFS-only file properties are lost, such as security-extended attributes. Also, all alternate data streams are lost.

Related Information

Accessing Restored Files
Viewing a Restore Job's Details
Restoring Files and Directories, or Databases