Hi All Again

I am a little confused about how restores are handled. Here is my
confusion.

We run TSM 4.2.2.12 on a Solaris 2.7 machine.

So, we have a Solaris client backed up in its entirety (OS, data etc). If
we lose the machine we must firstly rebuild the OS. Then, when we come to
restore from the incremental backups it will find lots of files that
already exist.

Question 1) Does it say a file exists based purely on file name or does it
only say it if a file with the same name, modification date, size etc
exists?

Question 2) If it is based just on the name of the file, I assume that we
would want to restore over the top of it so that we know we are bringing
the machine up to it's most recent state. But, will the system not crash if
system files are being overwritten? There may be more questions that I need
to ask here, but my knowledge is limited.

If anyone can give me some pointers about these questions, I would be most
greatful.

Many thanks

Farren Minns - TSM and Solaris System Admin - John Wiley & Sons Ltd

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