After users grant you access to their files on the server,
you can restore or retrieve those files to your local system.
About this task
You can display file spaces for another user on the
server, restore the backup versions of files for another user, or
retrieve the archive copies for another user to your local file system,
by following these steps:
Procedure
- Click Utilities from the main window.
- Click Access Another Node.
- Type the node name of the host workstation of the user
in the Node name field and click Set.
Results
If you are using commands, use the
fromnode option
to indicate the node. You must also use the file space name, rather
than the drive letter, to select the restore-retrieve drive that you
want to access. Include the file space name in braces and specify
it as you would specify a drive letter. For example, to restore the
files from the cougar node
\projx directory on the
d–disk file space to your own
\projx directory, enter:
dsmc restore -fromnode=cougar \\cougar\d$\projx\* d:\projx\
Use
the
query filespace command to display a list of
file spaces. For example, to display a list of the file spaces of
cougar, enter:
dsmc query filespace -fromnode=cougar
Important: The Tivoli® Storage Manager client
can use file space information when restoring files. The file space
information can contain the name of the computer from which the files
were backed up. If you restore files from another Tivoli Storage Manager client
node and do not specify a destination for the restored files, the
client uses the file space information to restore the files. In this
case, the client attempts to restore the files to the drive on the
original computer. If the restoring computer has access to the drive
of the original computer, you can restore files to the original drive.
If the restoring computer cannot access the drive of the original
computer, the client returns a network error message. If you want
to restore the original directory structure but on a different computer,
specify only the target drive when you restore the files.
This is true when restoring files from another node and when retrieving
files from another node.
