Hello Farren, have a look at the -ifnewer option.
Regards,
Andy
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IBM Software Group
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 05/16/2007
02:58:50 AM:
> Hi
>
> I'm just using a Unix TSM client. I am going to use the -latest option.
So
> i understand it will restore the latest copy of a file no matter if its
> active or not, but there may be older files on the file system in
question.
> So I don't really want to say 'skip all files that already exist', I
really
> want to say 'skip all files that already exist unless the copy in backup
is
> newer'. The reason for this is that the people who control the client
> needing to be restored built the server from some old data they had on
> another machine. All very messy.
>
> So, can I tell TSM to restore all files unless it finds and 'older'
version
> in the dir in question?
>
> Thanks
>
> Farren
>
>
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