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Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide
The restore image command restores a file system or raw volume
image that was backed up using the backup image command.
This command can restore an active base image, or a point-in-time base image,
with associated incremental updates.
- Note:
- The Tivoli Storage Manager API must be installed to use the restore
image command.
You can restore an NTFS file system to a FAT32 volume or vice-versa.
The destination volume to which you restore must exist and be the same size or
larger than the source volume. The physical layout of the target volume
(striped, mirrored, etc.) can differ. The target volume will be
overwritten with data containined in the image backup. It is not
necessary to format a target volume prior to restoring an image backup
containing a file system.
Data that you back up via LAN-based backup can be restored during a
server-free backup and vice-versa. The following are requirements for a
server-free restore of your data:
- The image you want to restore must have been backed up using the Tivoli
Storage Manager 5.1 client.
- The image backup you want to restore must not have been compressed using
the client compression option.
- The image must be bound to a management class that has a
nonblocked destination storage pool; server-free paths must
exist between all of the client disk(s), data mover, and storage pool.
If any of these requirements are not met, the client fails-over to a
direct connection to the server and proceeds to move data via LAN-free or
LAN-based data movement.
Supported Clients
This command is valid for Windows 2000 only.
Syntax
>>-REStore Image--+----------+--+- sourcefilespec---+----------->
'- options-' '- "sourcefilespec"-'
>--+----------------------+------------------------------------><
'- destinationfilespec-'
Parameters
- options
- You can use these command line options with the restore image
command: deletefiles, fromnode, inactive, incremental, noprompt,
pick, pitdate, and pittime. For detailed information
about these options, see Chapter 10, Using Options with Commands.
- sourcefilespec
- Specifies the name of a source image file system to be restored.
Only a single source image may be specified; you cannot use wildcard
characters.
- destinationfilespec
- Specifies the name of an existing mounted file system to which the source
file system will be restored. The default is the original location of
the file system. You can restore an NTFS file system to a FAT32 volume
or vice-versa.
The restore image command does not define or mount the
destination file space. The destination volume must exist, must be
large enough to hold the source, and, if it contains a file system, must be
mounted. The destination volume must be mapped to a drive letter or
mount point. If an image backup contains a file system, and you restore
them to a different location, be aware of the following points:
- If the destination volume is smaller than the source volume, the operation
will fail.
- If the destination volume is larger than the source, after the restore
operation you will lose the difference between the sizes. If
the destination volume is located on a dynamic disk the lost space can be
recovered by increasing the size of the volume. This will also increase
the size of the restored volume.
Examples
- Task
- Restore the c: drive to its original location.
Command: dsmc rest image c:
- Task
- Restore the h: drive to its original location and apply
the changes from the last incremental backup of the original image recorded at
the server. The changes include deletion of files.
Command: dsmc restore image h: -incremental
-deletefiles
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