Since you said you are going to restore an entire filespace, you can
issue the "query filespace" command to find out how large the filesystem
is, and the percent full, which will tell you the amount of data to be
restored.  

Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Fw: Estimating amount of data involved in a restore
From: Pete Tanenhaus <tanenhau AT US.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Fri, January 28, 2011 6:25 pm
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU

The following command should give you the information you are looking
for:

dsmc query backup d:\*.* -subdir=yes -querydetail

The summary output displayed after the list of backed up files contains
information pertaining to the aggregate amount data, the total number
of files and directories, etc.

Hope this helps ....



Pete Tanenhaus
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
email: tanenhau AT us.ibm DOT com
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Does anyone know how to get info out of TSM prior to an performing a
restore, for instance a restore of an entire filespace on a node e.g
the d: drive on a Windows Server, that would tell you how much data
there is to be restored?



I've tried the Export Node command with Preview=Yes and it appears to do
this fairly well but can run for a long time, so I'm trying to find a
better or quicker way.



Thanks for any help.