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Is there a way to tell TSM to only restore the files that were backed up for a give file space or directory on a given date/time as opposed to rebuilding the entire file space or directory as of that date/time?
For example, a user adds 10 files to directory /filesystem/dir1 on Monday, an incr backup is take Monday night. The user then adds 100 files on Tuesday, and again, an incr backup runs Tuesday night. At this point, we have 110 files on top of whatever was already out there prior to Monday. On Wednesday, the user wants to recover the 10 files from Monday. Clearly, you could restore the directory as of Tuesday to another location, and the user could copy over the 10 files that they need and/or you could restore to the same area and answer 'No' when prompted to overwrite (however that works), but is there a more efficient way to do this?
The equivalent for EMC NetWorker would be a saveset recovery. Yes, there's the risk, particularly when you're doing this for multiple nights -- trying to string something together -- that you could pull back deleted files (something the point in time avoids), but there could be times when it might be nice to avoid having to rebuild the entire directory from that night, especially if there were already a million files out there as of Monday, and all you want is the 10.
For example, a user adds 10 files to directory /filesystem/dir1 on Monday, an incr backup is take Monday night. The user then adds 100 files on Tuesday, and again, an incr backup runs Tuesday night. At this point, we have 110 files on top of whatever was already out there prior to Monday. On Wednesday, the user wants to recover the 10 files from Monday. Clearly, you could restore the directory as of Tuesday to another location, and the user could copy over the 10 files that they need and/or you could restore to the same area and answer 'No' when prompted to overwrite (however that works), but is there a more efficient way to do this?
The equivalent for EMC NetWorker would be a saveset recovery. Yes, there's the risk, particularly when you're doing this for multiple nights -- trying to string something together -- that you could pull back deleted files (something the point in time avoids), but there could be times when it might be nice to avoid having to rebuild the entire directory from that night, especially if there were already a million files out there as of Monday, and all you want is the 10.