Hello Andy,

One of the good points with the command line interface is that one can
redirect the output to a file, for review after the command is finished. No
matter how the command finishes. Of course I have run into problems with the
command prompting for input, it did not output the prompt to the screen and
the redirected file. I do not enought about windows internals, to know if
this is possible. Or if a windows program can even know that it's output is
redirected.

This would be with windows as the script command could be used on unix to
redirect the logging info and write it to the console at the same time.

A couple of questions.

1) Could one use the filelist option to enable Eric to do what he wanted?

2) The Gui restore is a very usefull tool. But unless I missed something, it
has one missing feature that would be very very helpfull. It  would be
helpful if the logging info could be also written out to a file. Then the
logging info, both error and non-error messages could be viewed after the
command is exited. No matter if the exit is due to user action or an
abend/fault of the client or o/s.
Unless this feature is now available and I missed it, is this something the
client team is thinking about adding?

3) Does the client team have any plans to add to the logging feature set,
both with the command line client and the gui?

4) If the filelist option would work. Would it be a reasonable request to
ask to have a restore option, that would not perform the restore, but
generate a list of restore specs that could be added to a filelist to
preform the restore.

I wonder if the new windows scripting tool monad has a function like the
unix script command.

Thanks len

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Raibeck" <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM restore question

If you check the RESTORE command syntax, you will see that only one file
specification is permitted per operation. So what you are looking to do is
not possible from the command line.

Try the GUI.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

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http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend (which doesn't necessarily mean that it is
ALWAYS the right tool for the job).
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 2005-11-05
06:00:20:

Richard:  Thanks.  I took a look and I'm still confused at how I can
restore multiple mount points on a single restore.  I see the wildcards
but if I wanted only a select group I don't see how I can list the mount
points on the restore line.
*TSM 5.2.2 on AIX 5.2(server) and the clients are UNIX running 5.2.2

(Each one below is a separate mount point on the filesystem.
> dsmc restore -inactive "/users32/oradata/FTKP/control1/*"
> -pitdate=10/13/2005 -f
> dsmc restore -inactive "/users32/oradata/FTKP/control2/*"
> -pitdate=10/13/2005 -f
> dsmc restore -inactive "/users32/oradata/FTKP/control3/*"
> -pitdate=10/13/2005 -f
> dsmc restore -inactive "/users32/oradata/FTKP/control4/*"
> -pitdate=10/13/2005 -f
I'd like to do a single restore so it retrieved all the files.
Currently the UNIX folks are issuing 22 restores and it happens that all
the data is on a single tape which means it has to be loaded 22 times
and unloaded 22 times.

Thanks for all the help,
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:42 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM restore question

On Nov 3, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Jones, Eric J wrote:

> ...Our UNIX group restores 1 mount point or directory at a time which
> takes very long time to restore multiple directories.  Currently they
> do something like
>
> --------------------------
>
> dsmc restore -inactive "/users32/oradata/FTKP/control1/*"
> -pitdate=10/13/2005 -f
> ...

Eric - See IBM Technote 1142185, particularly the "?*" wildcard spec
near
        the bottom.  Restoral performance and invocation choices are not
always obvious in the product.

    Richard Sims