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

Restore Image

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.

Server-Free Image Restore (Windows 2000)

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:

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:

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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