Joni,

I think you need to do a redirected restore (restore to alternate
location), as the filesystem/directory isn't the same, even though the
whole path is.

Nick Cassimatis

----- Forwarded by Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM on 10/01/2007 03:05 PM
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 10/01/2007
03:00:24 PM:

> Hi Ben,
>
> I would think the same thing too, but it still doesn't work.  Here is
what
> I can see:
>
> Location where data resides and was backed up from:
> /p01/app/ibm/was/appserver and then it goes to the subdir of
> /node01/.../.../...
>
> The only problem is that when a restore is attempted it says it cannot
> find any matches, but I can physically see the data within the TSM
client.
>  It just won't let me restore it.
>
> Here is how it is mounted on the linux server:
>
> chln793|/p01/app/ibm/was/appserver> df -k | grep appserver
> /dev/mapper/datavg1-appserverlv 17546044   9112708   8255080  53%
> /p01/app/ibm/was/appserver
>
> I guess I'm confused why it won't restore the data.  I don't see any
links
> to this data.  The only thing is that from the TSM server I do see a file
> system that used to exist:  /p01/app/ibm/was/appserver/node01 and I'm not
> sure if this is causing a conflict with the restore or not?  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks again!
>
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> Highmark
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>
>
> "Ben Bullock" <bbullock AT MICRON DOT COM>
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> 10/01/2007 02:53 PM
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> To
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> Subject
> Re: help, cannot restore files...
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Here is a guess
>
> Check for links in the directory path. TSM will not follow links by
> default. Usually when I can't see something down a path, there ends up
> being a link (hard or soft) in the path. Once you find the ~real~
> location of the data you should be able to restore it.
>
> Ben
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Joni Moyer
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 12:49 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: help, cannot restore files...
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am trying to restore files for a Linux server, TSM client 5.3.3.0.
> Apparently the file system: /p01/app/ibm/was/appserver/node01 file
> system no longer exists on this system and no data was ever backed up
> under this directory, but there IS a file system called:
> /p01/app/ibm/was/appserver and this file system contains a subdirectory
> called node01 and this IS where the data had been backed up under.  When
> doing a restore from the command line and from the Client GUI it says
> that No files match the query but I can see them down the
> /p01/app/ibm/was/appserver file system under the /node01 subdirectory.
> Any suggestions on what can be done so that I can get this data to
> restore to /tmp?  Any suggestions are appreciated!
> Thanks!
>
> ********************************
> Joni Moyer
> Highmark
> Storage Systems, Storage Mngt Analyst III Phone Number: (717)302-9966
> Fax: (717) 302-9826
> joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
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