Authorizing another user to restore or retrieve your files

You can authorize another user on the same workstation or a different workstation to restore backup versions or retrieve archive copies of your files.

About this task

This permits you to share files with other people or with other workstations that you use with a different node name. To authorize a user on another workstation to restore or retrieve your files, the other workstation must be running one of the UNIX clients and must be registered with your server.

Note: Mac OS X can only restore Mac OS X nodes.

To authorize another user to restore or retrieve your files:

1. Click Utilities → Node Access List from the main window. The Node Access List window appears.
2. Click the Add button. The Add Access Rule window appears.
3. In the Add Access Rule window, select an item in the Permit Access to field to specify the type of data that the other user can access. You can select either Backed up Objects or Archived Objects.
4. In the Grant Access to Node field, type the node name of the host workstation of the user that can access your data.
5. In the User field, type the name of the user on a node who can access your data.
6. In the Filespace and Directory field, select the file space and the directory that the user can access. You can select one file space and one directory at a time. If you want to give the user access to another file space or directory, you must create another access rule.
7. If you want to limit the user to specific files in the directory, type the name or pattern of the files on the server that the other user can access in the Filename field. You can make only one entry in the Filename field. It can either be a single file name or a pattern which matches one or more files. You can use a wildcard character as part of the pattern. Your entry must match files that have been stored on the server.
8. For the Java™ GUI: If you want to give access to all files that match the file name specification within the selected directory including its subdirectories, click Include subdirectories.
9. Click the OK button to save the access rule and close the Add Access Rule window.
10. The access rule that you created is displayed in the list box in the Node Access List window. When you have finished working with the Node Access List window, click the OK button. If you do not want to save your changes, click Cancel or close the window.