Restore Volume From a Dump

Describes how to restore from full and incremental dump files.

There are two ways to use volume dump restore:

With a full dump file, volume dump restore recreates a volume from scratch from volume data stored in the dump file.
With an incremental dump file, volume dump restore updates a volume using incremental changes stored in the dump file.

The volume that results from a volume dump restore operation is a mirror volume whose source is the volume from which the dump was created. After the operation, this volume can perform mirroring from the source volume.

When you are updating a volume from an incremental dump file, you must specify an existing volume and an incremental dump file. To restore from a sequence of previous dump files would involve first restoring from the volume's full dump file, then applying each subsequent incremental dump file.

Note: In a secure cluster, you must use the MapR user ID. Using root or any other user ID results in the system hanging.

A restored volume may contain mount points that represent volumes that were mounted under the original source volume from which the dump was created. In the restored volume, these mount points have no meaning and do not provide access to any volumes that were mounted under the source volume. If the source volume still exists, then the mount points in the restored volume will work if the restored volume is associated with the source volume as a mirror.

To restore from a full dump plus a sequence of incremental dumps:

Restore from the full dump file, using the -n option to create a new mirror volume and the -name option to specify the name.
Example:
```
maprcli volume dump restore -dumpfile fulldump1 -name restore1 -n
```

Restore from each incremental dump file in order, specifying the same volume name.

Examples:

maprcli volume dump restore -dumpfile incrdump1 -name restore1 maprcli
                        volume dump restore -dumpfile incrdump2 -name restore1 maprcli volume dump restore
                        -dumpfile incrdump3 -name restore1

...and so on.