Amy,

This is very well possible and not so difficult. At ourt site this occurs
regularly.
We use three, of the many possible solutions.

Depending on your platform, we use these command line options:

On windows NT with the native adsm-client command line;
        dsmc ret \\node1\c$\yourpath\yourfile(s)
c:\destination -fromnode=node1 -descr=yourdescription

On windows NT from the native windows nt command line;
        dsmc ret \\node1\c$\yourpath\yourfile(s)
c:\destination -node=node1 -descr=yourdescription
        Look at the difference between the fromnode and node options on the 
windows
NT platform.

On Unix-based clients;
        dsmc ret /sourcefilespace/file(s) (optional destination
filespace) -mach=sourcenode -descr=yourdescription

And there are ways to do so using the GUI's with virtual nodes and so on.
Most solutions can be found in de manual "Using the adsm backup/archive
client for platform".
There are also many tricks found in some redbooks.


Once you have tried one way, the others become very obvious.
Good luck