Mark,

I believe the client wants me to try to exmaine files
and see if it the file is corrupt. I did not know for
sure if there was a way for me do do this. The client
is located elsewhere. The files are from july 04 -oct 04
and they would have been backup up on are midnight
backup schedule.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stapleton, Mark" <mark.stapleton AT BERBEE DOT COM>
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:15 am
Subject: Re: Restore

> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
> Behalf Of Timothy Hughes
> >I am restoring files for a client and two of the files that he
> >tried to access after I restored them gave him  a error file corrupt?
> >
> >He would like for me to try and open up this file and see if
> >it is corrupt.
> >
> >How would I do this? If possible? I never had to do this before.
> >
> >Client sun solaris 5.1.5
> >
> >TSM server 5.2.3.1
> >AIX 5.2
>
> What do you mean by "open up"? There is not a way to examine the
> contents of a file from within either the TSM server or client.
> You can
> restore the file to an alternate location and examine it.
>
> I suspect that the backups may have been corrupted because the files
> were open when the backup was taken. Does your dsmsched.log file show
> anything unusual about those files?
>
> --
> Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
> Berbee Information Networks
> Office 262.521.5627
>