Universal Naming Convention restores

The client stores files on the Tivoli® Storage Manager server using the Windows Universal Naming Convention (UNC), not the drive letter. The UNC name is the network name for the file. The system name is a part of the UNC name. For example, if your system name is STAR and you have a file named c:\doc\h2.doc, the UNC name is \\star\c$\doc\h2.doc.

When you restore files on the same system from which they were backed up, you can use the local drive letter or the UNC name to refer to the file. For example, either of the following will restore c:\doc\h2.doc to its original location:

dsmc restore c:\doc\h2.doc
dsmc restore \\star\c$\doc\h2.doc

When you restore files on a system with a different name, then you must use the UNC name to refer to the file. This is true even if you are restoring to the same physical system, but the system name has changed since the backup occurred.

For example, if you back up c:\doc\h2.doc on system STAR and you want to restore it to system METEOR then you must use the UNC name to refer to the file. You must also specify a destination restore location. This is because the default behavior is to restore the file to its original location, which would be on system STAR. To restore the file to system METEOR, you can run either of the following on METEOR:

dsmc restore \\star\c$\doc\h2.doc c:\
dsmc restore \\star\c$\doc\h2.doc \\meteor\c$\