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Clarify my note about Restores on statellites

1994-08-05 19:37:01
Subject: Clarify my note about Restores on statellites
From: MJ Lopatin <lopatin AT VNET.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 16:37:01 PDT
Clarification: when I said server in my note, I meant the file server
               that the home directory was on (which is an ADSM client),
               not the ADSM server.
               I'm reposting the note below, with this clarification.

>our Unix users work on workstations which have the home file systems
>mounted via NFS from a file server. The file server does the backup,
>but users are not allowed to login there.

>I am looking for a simple way to allow users to restore their files,
>something like telling the ADSM-server: "File system A on node P is
>the same as file system B on node Q; treat them equally, at least
>regarding restores."

Reinhard,

  Look at the ADSM command line Set Access command or the GUI Utility
Set Authorization.  I think they are what you need.  On your
file server client,  grant access to all the files in the user's
home directory on the file server client to that user on their
workstation client.  The user can then restore their home files
themselves without ever having to logon to the file server client.

  Make sure the user uses the command line -fromnode and -fromuser
options, or the GUI Utility menu Set user/node option, and fills in
the file server client's node and the ID of the person who did
the backup.

  To grant the user access, on the file server client, from the ID
that did the backup, you'd need to create two access rules.
On the GUI screen, they would look like this:

  Type   Node         User            Path
------------------------------------------------------------
Backup   Usernode     User1           /homedir/*
Backup   Usernode     User1           /homedir/*
Backup   Usernode     User1           /homedir/*/*

These two should give the user access to all the backed up files from
his home directory on the file server at his Usernode.

                      -- MJ Lopatin
                         ADSM Client Development
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