Since you said you are going to restore an entire filespace, you can issue the "query filespace" command to find out how large the filesystem is, and the percent full, which will tell you the amount of data to be restored.
Best Regards, John D. Schneider The Computer Coaching Community, LLC Office: (314) 635-5424 / Toll Free: (866) 796-9226 Cell: (314) 750-8721 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ADSM-L] Fw: Estimating amount of data involved in a restore From: Pete Tanenhaus <tanen...@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri, January 28, 2011 6:25 pm To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU The following command should give you the information you are looking for: dsmc query backup d:\*.* -subdir=yes -querydetail The summary output displayed after the list of backed up files contains information pertaining to the aggregate amount data, the total number of files and directories, etc. Hope this helps .... Pete Tanenhaus Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development email: tanen...@us.ibm.com tieline: 320.8778, external: 607.754.4213 "Those who refuse to challenge authority are condemned to conform to it" ---------------------- Forwarded by Pete Tanenhaus/San Jose/IBM on 01/28/2011 07:18 PM --------------------------- Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu> To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu cc: Subject: Estimating amount of data involved in a restore Does anyone know how to get info out of TSM prior to an performing a restore, for instance a restore of an entire filespace on a node e.g the d: drive on a Windows Server, that would tell you how much data there is to be restored? I've tried the Export Node command with Preview=Yes and it appears to do this fairly well but can run for a long time, so I'm trying to find a better or quicker way. Thanks for any help.
