On Apr 14, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Karin Dambacher wrote:
Hi all,
does anyone know, where to find online (the) a TSM programmer's guide? Is there a possiblity to get a list of tapes, where are a client's data ? Not all tapes (I know this select), but if I want to do a "restore c:\home" only the tapes I need for that restore?
An often asked question... See "Restoral preview" in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts . The essential answer is that there is no way to get a list of the tapes needed for a given restoral, partly because restoral candidates determination can be so complex (read up on No Query Restore vs. Standard Restore to appreciate the complexities), and largely because the running of enterprise level facilities means that all resources are always available such that you as a human don't need to know what tapes are needed: the enterprise software and hardware takes care of all that for us meager humans.
You need to tell us more about what you need in terms of a "programmer's guide". There isn't one, per se, for TSM in general - only for the API - in that there's no user programming generally involved in TSM. The product provides various information gathering facilities (queries, SQL select, and ODBC) which usually suffice.
Richard Sims
