Redirected restore disabled for all non-administrators in Avamar 6.1 and above. You can enable by following this procedure.

Avamar 6.1, Redirect restore is disabled by default for non-administrator users and needs to be enabled from the avamar server.

1-      Login to avamar as root

2-      Run the commands in red without #

3-      # cd /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/

4-      # cp mcserver.xml mcserver.xml_orig

5-      Open the file mcserver.xml, you can use vi

6-      Search for the entries below

 entry key="admin_can_direct_restores" value="false" 

 entry key="restore_admin_can_direct_restores" value="false" 

7-      Change both entries to true

 entry key="admin_can_direct_restores" value="true" 

 entry key="restore_admin_can_direct_restores" value="true" 

8-      Save the file

9-      Need to restart the mcs (All backup and restore activities will be cleared)

10-   # su - admin

11-   # ssh-agent bash

12-   # ssh-add .ssh/dpnid

13-   # dpnctl stop mcs

14-   # dpnctl start mcs

15-   # dpnctl start