Restoring a file system in an environment that is managed by multiple Tivoli Storage Manager servers

You can recover files that were migrated and backed up from a single file system to multiple Tivoli® Storage Manager servers.

1. Determine the Tivoli Storage Manager servers that manage the file system. Issue the following command: dsmmigfs querymultiserver file_system.
2. Restore the directory structure. For each Tivoli Storage Manager server that manages the file system, issue the following command: dsmc restore -dirsonly -latest -server=migration_server file_system_name.
3. Restore the stub files. For each Tivoli Storage Manager server that manages the file system, issue the following command: dsmmigundelete -server=migration_server file_system. The dsmmigundelete command creates stub files and couples the stub files with the Tivoli Storage Manager server.
4. Restore files that were not migrated or premigrated. For each Tivoli Storage Manager server that manages the file system, issue the following command: dsmc restore -ifnewer -server=migration_server file_system. The ifnewer option ensures that the latest version of a file is recovered.