Do you have separate dsm.opt files for the cluster node and for the
cluster group as described in the docs?
Use 'dsmc -optfile=<cluster dsm.opt> instead of 'dsmc -virtualnodename'
and it should work just fine. I've done it before and had no problems.
Only because dsm.opt is stored on shared disk I use first virtualnodename
to restore the option file itself. And because each cluster group may
failover to the other node independently set it with separate
nodename&dsm.opt.
Example local disks C:, D:; cluster Group1 - F:, G:; Group2 - H:
nodeA in c:\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsm.opt on server 1
nodeB in c:\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsm.opt on server 2
Group1 in f:\dsm.opt or g:\tsm\dsm.opt or somewhere on drives f:,g:
Group2 in h:\dsm.opt

Zlatko Krastev
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No.  I get "ANS1084E No files have previously been backed up for
'drive:*'".


I did modify the dsm.opt for the cluster resource name. By default, the
dsm.opt (as opposed to a dsm_custom.opt) is read by the DSM or DSMC
utilities, so it must be changed to enable the correct node ID to restore
from, if other than the default node. I can't think of another way to
request a restore from a "virtual" node, such as a cluster resource.