Given that the TSM server is working fine and I backup server A
(not the TSM server) and want to restore that backup as a sanity
check to server B. What command do I use on server B to restore
A's files?

(A is in production, B is a test/scratch server)

Mike

In article <107qaom4diqfff5@corp.supernews.com>, Mike <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote:
> Given that the TSM server is working fine and I backup server A
> (not the TSM server) and want to restore that backup as a sanity
> check to server B. What command do I use on server B to restore
> A's files?

On server B:

# dsmc -virtualnodename=serverA
tsm> restore -subdir=yes "/path/to/fileOrDirFromA/*" /tmp/newDir

which will result in /tmp/newDir/fileOrDirFromA on server B. Without the
last parameter, it would restore to the original pathnames but on server B.

*IF* you get an invalid password error even though you know it is good,
then you will need to hop on the TSM server by:

# dsmadmc
tsm> update node serverA <password>
tsm> exit

.....and then retry the dsmc restore stuff.

I think that's common if you use the 'PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE' option
for the clients.

-Dan

In article <107qaom4diqfff5@corp.supernews.com>, Mike wrote:

> Given that the TSM server is working fine and I backup server A
> (not the TSM server) and want to restore that backup as a sanity
> check to server B. What command do I use on server B to restore
> A's files?

If server A and server B have the same (or similar enough) OS, look at
the VIRTUALNODE option.

--
Jurjen Oskam

"Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault-tolerance." - 308417

"Mike" <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:107qaom4diqfff5@corp.supernews.com...
> Given that the TSM server is working fine and I backup server A
> (not the TSM server) and want to restore that backup as a sanity
> check to server B. What command do I use on server B to restore
> A's files?
>
> (A is in production, B is a test/scratch server)
>
> Mike

# dsm -virtualnodename=A

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:35:03 +0000 (UTC), Dan Foster
<usenet@evilphb.org> wrote:

>In article <107qaom4diqfff5@corp.supernews.com>, Mike <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote:
>
>On server B:
>
># dsmc -virtualnodename=serverA
>tsm> restore -subdir=yes "/path/to/fileOrDirFromA/*" /tmp/newDir
>
>which will result in /tmp/newDir/fileOrDirFromA on server B. Without the
>last parameter, it would restore to the original pathnames but on server B.
>
>*IF* you get an invalid password error even though you know it is good,
>then you will need to hop on the TSM server by:
>
When you get this, you probably will unless you changed either the
password expiry on the node (or the default has been changed), make
sure you go back to server A and do something in dsmc to update the
password there too or your backup will fail.

Steven