Situation

The restore context of the GUI allows to either select by object or by session.

It needs to be noted that even when selecting a specific session to restore, this still means starting a restore to the situation as it was at backup time of that session and not just restoring all files that were backed up in that specific backup session!

Example

There is a directory "TEST" which includes 1 file "1.txt". A full backup is made of the directory "TEST". This backup will include the directory and the file.

Next a file "2.txt"  is added into the directory and an incremental backup is started. This will backup the new file "2.txt".

For a restore, a selection is made based on a session, namely the latest incremental session and the restore is done to a new location, the directory "TEST_REST_INC". In the restore session it will be seen that not just one but two media will get loaded: first the one from the full session and next the one from the incremental session. And as a result, the "TEST" directory will get restored and will contain both files "1.txt" and "2.txt".

Conclusion

A restore selection can be made by object or by session. When selecting by object, it will still be possible to select any existing version of the object. When selecting by session, no version selection is possible anymore as that was basically done by selecting the specific session already. Selecting a session is just another way of selecting the correct version. But both methods will build up a restore chain and restore the object completely as it was at the time of the selection that was made. For that it will use all incremental sessions as needed and up to the full backup session backing up the object.

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