Thanks Bill, Wanda and Mark for your responses! The restore worked! The reason the client could not open the files once he downloaded them was because the file-name has a semi-colon in it and windows does not recognize it. He said they will run a script to rename the files.
Thanks again! ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:17 pm Subject: Re: Restore > Just make sure when you use the VIRTUALNODENAME parameter that > you always > select an alternate location for the restored files. > NEVER..EVER..selectoriginal locations. Especially on a Windows > box. The original location is a > UNC name of the <drive>$ share of the original server and if you are > currently logged in as a domain admin, or admin of the original > server...guess what? You just overwrote the good files. Same thing on > Netware, too I believe. > > Been there..done that..burned the t-shirt! > > Bill Boyer > "Experience is a comb that nature gives us after we go bald." - ?? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Prather, Wanda > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Restore > > > If you want to restore the files to your location, start the TSM > clientthis way: > > dsm -virtualnodename=nameofremoteclient > > when the box pops up asking for the client password, OVERWRITE the > nodename with your TSM admin id and your TSM admin password. The > file tree > will open showing you the inventory for the remote client. > > You can select the files to restore and restore to OTHER LOCATION and > point the to some place on your machine. > > HOWEVER, you may not necessarily be able to restore a Solaris file to > your AIX machine. > Depends on the file systems. Better to try it on a local Solaris > machine, If you have one. > > Wanda Prather > "I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O" -(me) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Timothy Hughes > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Restore > > > Mark, > > I believe the client wants me to try to exmaine files > and see if it the file is corrupt. I did not know for > sure if there was a way for me do do this. The client > is located elsewhere. The files are from july 04 -oct 04 > and they would have been backup up on are midnight > backup schedule. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:15 am > Subject: Re: Restore > > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Timothy Hughes > > >I am restoring files for a client and two of the files that he > > >tried to access after I restored them gave him a error file > corrupt?> > > > >He would like for me to try and open up this file and see if > > >it is corrupt. > > > > > >How would I do this? If possible? I never had to do this before. > > > > > >Client sun solaris 5.1.5 > > > > > >TSM server 5.2.3.1 > > >AIX 5.2 > > > > What do you mean by "open up"? There is not a way to examine the > > contents of a file from within either the TSM server or client. > > You can > > restore the file to an alternate location and examine it. > > > > I suspect that the backups may have been corrupted because the files > > were open when the backup was taken. Does your dsmsched.log file > show> anything unusual about those files? > > > > -- > > Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Berbee Information Networks > > Office 262.521.5627 > > >
