On Jul 5, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Alinak <tsm-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM> wrote:

> Richard, thank you, it works now. My file was successfully stored in TSM by 
> command 'dsmc selective file_name'.
> As I understood, I should use "selective" option when send any file to TSM at 
> first time and "incremental" option at the second and futher times.

No, that is not the case. The Selective type of backup is used to perform a 
"backup regardless", even if there is another, same copy of the file on the 
server. It was used in this instance for you to demonstrate to yourself that a 
backup could be done. Selective is a special type of backup, sometimes used to 
cause a cohesive backup of a directory or file system so that all the data is 
together, which aids faster restoral from tape. Normal backups would be 
Incremental, where the initial incremental backup would cause everything to be 
backed up from the specified file system, directory, or file(s), and subsequent 
incremental backups would send only changed files.

You may want to use 'dsmq query options' and 'dsmc query inclexcl' to verify 
what options and exclusions are in force for your various client-server 
interactions. You may have an unintended Exclude in effect. You could 
corroborate this by attempting a backup of a file from a different file system, 
which could have different TSM governance.

> 
> But how can I restore my file from TSM server back to my server?

'dsmc restore' does that; or use the GUI. The client manual provides guidance 
on such operations.
It is usually best to perform 'dsmc query backup' in much the same manner as 
the anticipated restoral invocation in order to check out what will come back 
in a restoral.

    Richard Sims