Not to worry, this is easy:

Change DEAD client's password to something you know, if you don't know
already.

You will have to a restore to a Wintel machine that has the TSM client at
4.1.2.12 or higher.

Start the TSM client on the destination machine this way:

        CD into the tsm/baclient subdirectory
        dsm -virtualnodename=DEADCLIENTNAME

This is a way of telling TSM that you are masquerading as the DEAD client.
You will be prompted for the password of the DEAD client.
The file tree that you see, will be the DEAD client's file tree.

You will have to specify a RESTORE TO destination for every restore, even if
the directory name on the destination machine is the same as the original
directory on the DEAD machine.  (Because if you tell TSM to 'restore to
original location', it tries to find the directory based on the original UNC
name, which won't match.)

That's all there is to it!

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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
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wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
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-----Original Message-----
From: Pearson, Dave [mailto:DCPearson AT SNOPUD DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 2:22 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Restoring Data - Server doesn't exist anymore.


        Hi all,  I have never done this and your help would be greatly
appreciated.

        We have TSM Server V4.2.1.7 on AIX 4.3.3 and TSM Client V 4.1.2.12
was on Window NT

        The Window NT box does not exist any more.  Been gone for a month.
We usually keep the TSM Client node and backups for a couple of months
before we blow them away. Now someone came to us and said they need info
from the non-existing NT box.  We still have the backups on TSM.

        How can I restore the data that is needed from the nodes and backups
without the old NT box?

        Thanks for any help can give me

        Dave Pearson
        System and Network Service
        425.347.4420
        dcpearson AT snopud DOT com