I've never tested this but here is my guess:    

There are actually 2 types of restores, classic and no-query.
In a no-query restore, I believe TSM creates a DUMMY directory structure
at the beginning, but I'm not even sure it builds the whole thing at
once.  The idea is that laying down a dummy lets it restore the files
without having to mount all the tapes once to get the directories, then
again to get the files.

So in your case I THINK it will restore the directories, but you won't
have the permissions right.

If I were you, I would run a RESTORE using the command line client and
specify -dirsonly.
That will get all your directories back ASAP, and they will be complete.

Again, that comes with a disclaimer, I haven't done it myself...

Wanda Prather
"I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O"  -(me)





-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Dearman, Richard
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 1:53 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: HELP NEEDED ASAP!!

One of oour main windows 2003 server crahsed today and the san disk it
turs out is corrupted and we need to restore 2TB of user files to a new
server.

The users cannot login to their workstations because this server is used
in our login process and each user maps a home directory to a share on
that server when they login.  I am in the process of creating a
backupset
so the restore can go quickly but our management needs the users to at
least be able to login even if there data is not restored yet.

So if I start a restore will TSM recreate all the folders with
permissions
first then start putting the data back last?  If we can get the folder
structure back first we can at least let people login.

Does anyone know if TSM will put the folder structure back first with
permissions?

Thanks