There is one thing to keep in mind when you change the dsm.opt on an NT
system to make TSM think you are a different node.
The driver letters c:,d:, etc.. get substituted to their UNC names
based on the machinename  of the machine that is doing the backups and
restores.

Say I have a machinename 'Backup' and I've done backups on it of
the c drive.  Well the unc filespace name is \\Backup\c$.
Now if I go to a server named 'Restore' and try to restore and
I use the syntax 'dsmc restore c:\*.*'  it will use the unc name
\\Restore\c$.

James Thompson

From: John Naylor <John.Naylor AT SCOTTISH-SOUTHERN.CO DOT UK>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: DR test-testing
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:26:01 +0000

Thomas,

Cannot speak about NT restores specifically, but have had some experience
of
Novell restores and do not see why from a TSM view they should be
different.
Say you want to restore client A's filespaces to client B
With Netware you just specify the nodename of client A in the dsm.opt of
client
B
Then you kick of a command line restore from client B something along the
lines
of
load dsmc rest  -tapep=n -repl=n -su=y A\data:\   B\data:\
You have told TSM that for the purposes of the restore Client B is client
A, so
it will restore
client A's data to the tcpip address that you have initiated the restore
from.
We actually use a separate "contingency" client for this type of disaster
recovery restores,
but if you do not then you need to ensure that after the restore you change
the
nodename in
client B back to its real name, and of course that old caveat  with Novell
of
relading the client scheduler to pick up the dsm.opt change. With NT I
believe
the same is achieved by stop/starting the scheduller service.

Hope this helps,
John


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