To restore the flat files from a specified Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange backup
into a specified directory, use the restorefiles command.
The following information provides details about this
command:
- This command does not require an Exchange Server to be installed
on, or accessible from the system where the restorefiles command
is run.
- Files can be restored to an alternative system or to an alternative
directory on the same system as the Exchange Server.
- The command continues until it succeeds, or until the destination
volume does not contain enough space for the operation.
- When you restore files from an inactive backup or an active incremental
backup, use the /object parameter to specify
the name of the backup object. The object name uniquely identifies
the backup instance in Tivoli® Storage Manager server storage.
A list of backup object names is obtained by issuing the query
tsm command.
- This command is only available on the command-line interface.
It is not available in the Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange graphical
user interface.
The following provides details about the restorefiles command:
- The restorefiles command overwrites files that
exist and have the same name.
- If a log file from an incremental backup has the same name as
the log file from the full backup operation, you can run two consecutive restorefiles commands
to the same directory:
For a full backup, enter the following
command:
tdpexcc restorefiles STG1 FULL /into=d:\temprestore
For
an incremental restore with backed up log files, enter the following
command:
tdpexcc restorefiles STG1 INCR /into=d:\temprestore
- When you use the restorefiles command to restore
local VSS backups, the command must be issued from the system on which
the snapshot was created.