Cold restores

Perform a cold restore while the database server is offline. It consists of both a physical restore and a logical restore. You must perform a cold restore to restore any critical dbspaces.

The database server is offline when you begin a cold restore but it goes into recovery mode after it restores the reserved pages. From that point on it stays in recovery mode until either a logical restore finishes (after which it works in quiescent mode) or you use the onmode utility to shift it to another mode.

You can rename chunks by specifying new chunks paths and offsets during a cold restore. This option is useful if you need to restore storage spaces to a different disk from the one on which the backup was made. You can rename any type of chunk, including critical chunks and mirror chunks. For more information, see Rename chunks during a restore. You can also rename chunks for an external cold restore; see Rename chunks for more information.

A cold restore can be performed after a dbspace has been renamed and a level-0 backup or a backup of the rootdbs and renamed dbspace is performed.