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Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide

Restoring or Retrieving Files to Another Type of Workstation

Because the file formats used on Windows NT and Me are compatible, you can restore or retrieve files from one system type to another. This is called cross-client restore. For example, if you archive a file from a Windows NT workstation, you can retrieve that file to a Windows Me workstation.

Attention: You must have the appropriate permissions to access the file spaces of the other workstation, as explained in Authorizing Another User to Restore or Retrieve Your Files and Restoring or Retrieving Another User's Files.

Restoring or retrieving from non-native file systems
The following clients support the associated file systems for restore purposes:

Although each client can recover data from each of these file systems, some restrictions apply when recovering files that were backed up or archived from a drive that the client does not support. For example:

NTFS drives
The Windows Me client can recover the files, but special NT attributes such as security and ACL attributes are not recovered.

Windows NT clients can recover files from the Windows 2000; however, unique Windows 2000 attributes may be lost during recovery.

Windows 2000, XP, and Windows.Net clients have no restrictions when recovering files.

FAT drives
Windows NT clients can recover the files without any restrictions.

Recovering long file names
NTFS drives permit file and directory names that are longer than those permitted on FAT drives. If you are recovering files to a FAT drive with long file names, you should always specify a destination file specification for each file. This ensures that you get the name you want.

When you use the Windows NT client to recover files with long names to an NTFS disk, the long names are preserved, even if you are recovering the file to a different type of drive than the source drive.

The considerations for retrieving files are the same as for restoring them.


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