According to Richard Sims wonderful
Quick Facts page there is no preview
option for the restore command.

Go to

http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts

and search for "Restoral preview"

All credit goes to mr. Sims.


Kind regards,

Alexander

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Alexander Verkooijen
Senior Systems Programmer
High Performance Computing
SARA Computing & Networking Services


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] 
> On Behalf Of Gerald Wichmann
> Sent: maandag 1 december 2003 23:04
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Tape Volumes Needed for a Restore
> 
> 
> If I load the TSM GUI and select a few directories to 
> restore, is there some
> way to determine which tapes will be required to satisfy that 
> restore? A
> sort of preview=yes option for restores? Or how would you 
> determine which
> tapes you need given a point in time restore of an entire server?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gerald
> 
> 
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