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If you attempt to restore or retrieve a file whose name is the same as an existing file's short name, a file name collision will occur (existence of duplicate file names). An example is when the file abcdefghijk.doc has a short name of abcdef~1.doc, and you attempt to restore or retrieve a file explicitly named abcdef~1.doc into the same directory. In this case, a collision will occur because the name of the file you are restoring conflicts with the short name for abcdefghijk.doc. Tivoli Storage Manager handles this situation based on the value of the replace option.
A collision can occur even if the files are restored or retrieved to an empty directory. For example, files abcdef~1.doc and abcdefghijk.doc may originally have existed in the directory as abcdefghijk.doc and abcdef~2.doc. During the restore, if abcdefghijk.doc is restored first, it is assigned a short name of abcdef~1.doc by the Windows operating system. When you restore abcdef~1.doc, the duplicate file name situation occurs.
If a file name collision occurs, you can do any of the following: