Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 792)

OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual P009415-01A Rev. A
5. OneCommand NIC Teaming Manager Command Line Interface
The Command Reference
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Restoring the NIC Teaming Configuration
Syntax
OCTeamCmd.exe restore <filename>
Parameters
Description
This command replaces current NIC teaming configuration with the configuration
found in the specified backup file. By replacing the current NIC teaming configuration
with a backed up version, you can:

Undo changes to the NIC configuration that you no longer want.

Facilitate disaster recovery by restoring a NIC teaming configuration after
reloading an operating system.
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Duplicate NIC teaming configurations on identical servers.
Note: The Restore command does not restore assigned IP addresses.
To restore the NIC teaming configuration on the same or a duplicated server, the
server's current physical NIC configuration must be identical to the NIC configuration
in the backup file. If this condition is violated, the restoration is terminated.
The file specification can include a directory path in addition to the filename. If you do
not specify a directory path, the backup file is assumed to be located in the current
working directory. Any directory path that you specify must be absolute or relative to
the current working directory. If the directory path name or the file name contains
spaces, then you must enclose the entire file specification in quotes or double quotes.
Note: When restoring a NIC Teaming configuration, the system must have the same
adapter models in the same PCI slots as the backed up system.
Note: When using the Restore command on Hyper-V systems, you must first delete
any existing Hyper-V virtual adapters that represent teams or VLANs. See
“Deleting Hyper-V Teams” on page 779 for more information. Once the restore
process is complete, you can re-create the virtual adapters.
Once the restore operation is complete, a restore report is generated.
Example
c:\Program Files\Emulex\NIC Teaming>OcTeamCmd.exe restore backup.txt
The NIC Teaming and VLAN configuration has been restored from file
backup.txt created 1/20/2012 1:49:36 PM. Please check c:\Program
Files\Emulex\NIC Teaming\RestoreReport_20120120-135023.txt for more
details.
filename
The NIC Teaming and VLAN configuration is restored from this file
that was created using the backup option.