This happened to us only about two weeks ago, on a Solaris system. Just
go ahead and do a full restore back to the original locations,
specifying replace=all. Restoring to an alternate location and trying to
merge the metadata back in is a mess that will take much more time than
a simple full restore.

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu
======I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=====


On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Strand, Neil B. wrote:

>You might want to look into the AIX commands:
>lppchk and/or tcbck
>
>
>Thank you,
>Neil Strand
>Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
>Baltimore, MD.
>(410) 580-7491
>Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
>Boldness has genius, power and magic.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
>Of Steve Harris
>Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 1:15 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: [ADSM-L] Getting unix permissions back from TSM
>
>Hi All
>
>One of my accounts has just had a unix admin tried to run something
>like
>
>chown -R something:something /home/fred/*
>
>but he had an extra space in there and ran it from the root directory
>
>chown -R something:something /home/fred/ *
>
>This has destroyed the ownership of the operating system binaries and
>trashed the system.  Worse it was done using a distributed tool, so
>quite a number of AIX lpars are affected including the TSM server.
>
>Once we get the TSM Server back up, is there any way to restore just
>the file permissions without restoring the data?  I can't think of a
>way.  Maybe there is a testflag to do this?  Even a listing of the file
>and permissions for all active files would be enough to be able to fix
>the problem.
>
>TSM Server 5.5 AIX 5.3
>
>Thanks
>
>Steve
>
>TSM Admin
>Canberra Australia.
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