Try using the -fromdate option, this will only restore objects backed up after
the date entered
in fromdate. I've played around with it (Small Scale, not full testing) and the
restore runs much
faster than a full restore with -ifnewer.

On Tuesday, February 20, 2001 7:24 AM, Christoph Pilgram
[SMTP:Christoph.Pilgram AT BC.BOEHRINGER-INGELHEIM DOT COM] wrote:
> Hy all,
>
> within the next few days I have to restore some large disk-volumes to new
> disks on a Netware-Server. Because its in production, I can't stop the
> server for the whole restore time. The volumes are about 260GB in size. The
> backup-data are spanned over about 24 tapes (3590E), so restore takes a
> while.
> The data can not be mirrored.
> My idea is to restore the complete data to the new volumes while users work
> on the old ones. After finishing this restore, I want to do another
> incremental backup of the old volumes to get the meanwhile changed data.
>
> But : how do I get only these data to the new volumes without touching all
> the other older data on the tapes ???
>
> TSM-Server : AIX 4.3  TSM 3.7.4
> Netware-Version : 5.0   TSM-Client 3.7.2
>
> Thanks for help
> Christoph