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

Restoring or Retrieving Your Files to Another Workstation

When you are using a different workstation, you can restore or retrieve files you backed up from your own workstation. Your backup versions and archive copies are stored according to your node, not your specific workstation. Your Tivoli Storage Manager password protects your data.

To restore or retrieve files to another workstation, use the virtualnodename option to specify the node name of the workstation from which you backed up the files. You can use the virtualnodename option when starting Tivoli Storage Manager or place the option in your client options file dsm.opt on the workstation. If you are using a workstation other than your own, use the virtualnodename option with the dsm command. For example, if your node name is cougar, enter:

   start dsm -virtualnodename=cougar

You can then restore or retrieve files as if you were working on your original workstation.

You can use virtualnodename on commands also. For example, if you want to restore your projx files, enter:

   dsmc restore -virtualnodename=cougar cougar \\cougar\d$\projx\*.*

If you do not want to restore or retrieve the files to the same directory name on the alternate workstation, enter a different destination.


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