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Re: Help - ADSM API Question on NT

1998-12-10 05:18:00
Subject: Re: Help - ADSM API Question on NT
From: Andy Raibeck <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 10:18 AM
>The API can not be used to access files backed up or archived
>with the regular Backup-Archive client.
>
>If you need to use the API to retrieve files, then you must use
>the API to archive them.
>
>Alternatively you might write a program to do something like this:
>
>a) Run dsmadmc to issue a SELECT statement against the ARCHIVES
>   table and redirect the output to a file.
>
>b) Read the file containing the SELECT output and, using whatever
>   criteria you desire, locate the versions by archive date and
>   time you wish to retrieve. The criteria might be another input
>   file containing the names of the files to retrieve including
>   date and time criteria, description, etc.
>
>c) Write an output file containing RETRIEVE commands with
>   appropriate -FROMDATE, -FROMTIME, -TODATE, -TOTIME,
>   -DESCRIPTION, etc., to retrieve the desired files.
>
>d) Invoke dsmc with the MACRO command to retrieve the files.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Andy
>
>Andy Raibeck
>IBM Storage Systems Division
>ADSM Client Development
>e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
>"The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked."
>
>Help PLEASE!
>
>Situation: Would like to "archive" files from 98/NT (& if possible Mac) =
>platforms using the normal client GUI utilities.  Then a custom C-based =
>ADSM API client application is being developed to "retrieve" the files =
>onto a 98/NT machine.
>
>Problem: Does anyone know if a different application than the one =
>whiched "archived" files can "retrieve" them?  A note on page 41 of the =
>ADSM "Using the API" manual states that: "The API can only restore or =
>retrieve objects that have been backed up or archived with API calls."  =
>Does this mean that I will also need to write an archive client to be =
>able to retrieve the files with a C API program?  In other words, does =
>the same application need to both read and write a given file?  Or can =
>the regular clients archive and an API-based application retrieve the =
>same files, given the proper nodename & password?
>
>Thanks,
>Fabrizio Golino
>fgolino AT ex-pressnet DOT com
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