Hmm, not unless you have a previous copy of the TSM database
that knows where all the data was located.

        Even then, you will need to restore the DB to get to it. So...
you either build up a second TSM server instance (on the same hardware)
or roll back your production TSM server to the previous version and lose
the data backed up since that DB backup.

        Either way, it is not pretty nor fun. Hence the, "This data is
unrecoverable. Are you ~sure~ you wanna nuke it?" message when you
delete the filespace.

        If the customer will not take "Sorry I goofed, it's gone" as an
excuse, you have a bunch of work ahead of you to get it back.

Ben


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Chet Osborn
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:28 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Recovery of deleted filespaces


Hi,

In attempting to help a user clean up his backups, mistakenly assumed
that he had copies of the subset of folders that he wanted to back up on
his disk drive. I deleted the TSM filespace, only to discover that my
assumption was incorrect.

If I can figure out which tapes the backups are on, is there any way of
restoring them?

Chet Osborn
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute