Re: [ADSM-L] scheduling a restore

Gary,
I was tasked to do this for over 1,000 servers in our DR facility, basically 
data is backed up in production and it need to be restored on an ongoing basis 
to stand-by servers at our DR site to minimize recovery time.

You can create a restore schedule in the same manner as a backup schedule, but 
for my needs there were limitations that made it unattractive, such as 
overwriting existing files, multiple filespaces, etc., etc.

In the end I went in another direction, creating a macro.   I tested the 
commands needed to accomplish my restore, copied them into a text file, named 
it with an extension of "mac", copied it to the client install directory. and 
whala , problem solved.

Then I defined a reoccurring client schedule that looks like this:

            Policy Domain Name: FILE_DOMAIN
                 Schedule Name: RESTORE2
                   Description: DR/BCP restore schedule for LPAR-2.
                        Action: Macro
                     Subaction:
                       Options:
                       Objects: restore-bcp.mac
                      Priority: 5
               Start Date/Time: 05/23/2016 08:00:00
                      Duration: 8 Hour(s)
    Maximum Run Time (Minutes): 0
                Schedule Style: Classic
                        Period: 1 Day(s)
                   Day of Week: Any


My  commands in the macro are exactly as they would be typed at the command 
line, here's an example:
restore -replace=all -subdir=yes /home/ra/

You would obviously need to add a second file specification to the end of it 
for your restore destination.
I use the replace option to replace all the files, as well as restore any 
subdirectories and their files too.

Refer to documented syntax for the restore command for a list of the myriad of 
options available.
Possibilities are pretty much endless....


-Rick Adamson
Jacksonville, FL.


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Lee, Gary
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 8:19 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] scheduling a restore

Tsm client 6.3.2 for windows, server 7.1.7.1 running on RHEL 6.8.

Had some notes on this, but can't find them.
Trying to schedule a restore to an alternate destination and can't get it to 
work.
What am I missing.

Want to restore g:\*.*
To
F:\drive-g\

Essentially move all files from drive g: to f:\drive-g folder.

Thanks for the help.