No, the problem was I was not given the correct information by the user.  When
he followed my lead, keystroke by keystroke, his restore ran fine.


Quoting Peter Hadikin <Peter_Hadikin AT BCIT DOT CA>:

> Any chance the filesystem that they are trying to restore to no longer
> exists on the client side?
>
> Peter
>
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>                       Andrew Raibeck
>                       <storman AT US DOT IBM.C        To:
> ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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>                       Dist Stor
>                       Manager"
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>                       02/20/2003 12:44
>                       PM
>                       Please respond to
>                       "ADSM: Dist Stor
>                       Manager"
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> It would help if you could provide a copy & paste example that
> demonstrates the problem, including the QUERY BACKUP output for this
> file
> and the RESTORE output (as I said, use copy & paste so we can see
> *exactly* what you are doing and what you are getting). Is this a
> restore
> to the same machine or a different machine; if different, are the OSes
> the
> same?
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Raibeck
> IBM Software Group
> Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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> The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
> The command line is your friend.
> "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
>
>
>
>
> Fred Johanson <fred AT MIDWAY.UCHICAGO DOT EDU>
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> 02/20/2003 13:15
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>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Another missing file
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> I got a call from a substitute sysadmin who can't find a file.  I can
> see
> the file in the DB and by "dsmc -virualnodename q ba".  It's an AIX
> 4.3.3
> box with TSM 5.1.1.0.  All attempts to restore end in either, "NO
> objects
> found", "Destination space unavailable', or "Invalid destination file
> spec".   I can't see what he's doing wrong.
>


Fred Johanson