Restoring or retrieving your files to another workstation

When you are using a different workstation, you can restore or retrieve files you backed up from your own workstation.

Your backup versions and archive copies are stored according to your node, not your specific workstation. Your Tivoli® Storage Manager password protects your data.

To restore or retrieve files to another workstation, use the virtualnodename option to specify the node name of the workstation from which you backed up the files. You can use the virtualnodename option when starting Tivoli Storage Manager or place the option in your client options file, dsm.opt, on the workstation. If you are using a workstation other than your own, use the virtualnodename option with the dsm command. For example, if your node name is cougar, enter:

   start dsm -virtualnodename=cougar

You can then restore or retrieve files as if you were working from your original workstation.

You can also use virtualnodename option on commands. For example, to restore your \projx files to your local c:\myfiles directory, enter:

   dsmc restore -virtualnodename=cougar \\cougar\d$\projx\*.* c:\myfiles\

If you do not want to restore or retrieve the files to the same directory name on the alternate workstation, enter a different destination.

Restoring or retrieving files to another type of workstation

You can restore or retrieve files from one system type to another. This is called cross-client restore.

Restriction: You must have the appropriate permissions to access the file space of the other workstation.

NTFS and ReFS drives permit file and directory names that are longer than those permitted on FAT drives. If you are recovering files to a FAT drive with long file names, specify a destination file specification for each file.

When you use the Windows client to recover files with long names to an NTFS or ReFS file system, the long names are preserved, even if you are recovering the file to a different type of drive than the source drive.