This won't help you now, but it may help someone else before crisis hits

1) As part of the documentation of the server, use either the natvie 'net
share' command, or rmtshare.exe from the Windows Resource Kit to document
your shares. Create a batch file that creates the shares and copy it off
somewhere.

2) Potentially, periodically use the native xcopy command (xcopy /t /e) to
create your (empty) directory structure elsewhere and then zip it down into
a single file and back that up. Should take minimal space, and when
unzipped, voila.

3) If permissions are important, my favorite tool is fileacl.exe - google
for it, it's truly wonderful. The most wonderful thing about it is that it
can create its own batch file to document and reapply permissions to a
directory structure.

Kurt

| -----Original Message-----
| From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On
| Behalf Of
| Dearman, Richard
| Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:53
| To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
| Subject: [ADSM-L] HELP NEEDED ASAP!!
|
|
| One of oour main windows 2003 server crahsed today and the san disk it
| turs out is corrupted and we need to restore 2TB of user
| files to a new
| server.
|
| The users cannot login to their workstations because this
| server is used
| in our login process and each user maps a home directory to a share on
| that server when they login.  I am in the process of creating
| a backupset
| so the restore can go quickly but our management needs the users to at
| least be able to login even if there data is not restored yet.
|
| So if I start a restore will TSM recreate all the folders
| with permissions
| first then start putting the data back last?  If we can get the folder
| structure back first we can at least let people login.
|
| Does anyone know if TSM will put the folder structure back first with
| permissions?
|
| Thanks
|