I have tested restoring partial data from a backup set.  It appears that I
am limited to how far down the path I can restore from.
For example,

I can successfully restore:
tsm> restore backupset bksettape.43448461 \\adsmtst\c$\program files

However, when I try to restore the following:
tsm> restore backupset bksettape.43448461 \\adsmtst\c$\program
files\microsoft office\clipart
I receive the following error:
ANS1102E Excessive number of command line arguments passed to the program!

Explanation: This command processing routine received more operands than it
can use. Query can contain only one file specification. Restore and
Retrieve can contain two file specifications. Archive, Delete, and
Selective can contain a maximum of 20 file specifications.
System Action: Processing stopped.
User Response: Reduce the number of arguments and retry the operation. For
UNIX-based systems, ensure that you do not omit the quotes around pattern
matching characters.

My question is:  Am I LIMITED to how specific (how far down the path) my
restore is?  It appears that I can only specify 2 arguments (c$\folder).





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Marc,

Here is an example of how to restore a single file from a backupset.

Hope this helps.

tsm> restore backupset test.2951293 \\erms_ws06\c$\jim\setup.exe
Restore function invoked.

ANS1247I Waiting for files from the server...
Restoring          45,568 \\erms_ws06\c$\jim\SETUP.EXE [Done]

Restore processing finished.

Total number of objects restored:         1
Total number of objects failed:           0
Total number of bytes transferred:    44.79 KB
Data transfer time:                    0.00 sec
Network data transfer rate:            0.00 KB/sec
Aggregate data transfer rate:          0.13 KB/sec
Elapsed processing time:           00:05:31




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