Matthias,
our solution for the problem may not help in your specific case, because
it depends on doing some extra work in advance.
We run a job on a daily basis that creates a directory listing of all
servers, that contains all absolute paths to all files.
In case of a really necessary point-in-time-restore I restore the
subdir-path into a temporary directory. Out of the dirlisting I create a
copy-batch to copy back to the original location only the files that
existed at the time, when the listing was created.

As it does not help you to know that ADSM's next version is to contain
the point-in-time feature and you did not create a list of all files on
the day they got lost, you only can try to analyse the DSMSCHED.LOG file
of the client. When it reaches back far enough (more than the retention
period for deleted files) you can extract a list of files that got
deleted before the point-in-time you want (marked as expired) and delete
them.

This procedure takes a lot of time, sometimes it consumes less "energy"
for the user to repair his area after you did restore too many files.
When ADSM stops without having restored any files, you likely forgot the
option "-inactive" and only used "-todate".

Regards
Michael
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Michael H. Bartl, ADAC e.V. (IDL/PPO)
Michael H. Bartl, ADAC e.V. (IDL/PPO)
Tel.: (089) 7676-4063, Fax: (089) 7676-8161
EMail: Michael.Bartl AT Zentrale.ADAC DOT de

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>Von:   Matthias Brasch[SMTP:M_Brasch AT COMPUSERVE DOT COM]
>Gesendet:      Donnerstag, 31. Juli 1997 15:13
>An:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Betreff:       restore question
>
>Hi ADSM'ers,
>
>I've got an problem :
>
>One of my users has deleted his whole subdir-path some days before and
>is now calling me to help him. So all files became 'inactive' for adsm.
>How can I restore all files which were on his drive without getting back
>all
>files he deleted in the past. I don't know the time-window ( fromdate ).
>The only thing that I want is to get back the files as they where on the
>server
>last monday.
>Would the 'todate-option' in combination with 'latest-option' work ?
>I've tried this and it doesn't seem to work.
>After 3 hours of thinking ADSM restore ends with the
>error ANS4093E ( trying to restore dir-name where an file already exists
>with the same name ), so I saw that this couldn't be the situation of last
>monday.
>There is a lot of garbage in the inactive files and I don't want to restore
>everything
>( and I can't because of the error above ).
>
>Does anyone have a solution without giving the exact time window ???
>
>
>best regards, Matthias Brasch, HEW-Hamburg Germany
>