Storix Software SBAdmin TSM Edition Users Guide User Manual

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2. Use the arrow button to select a

Server name. If you want to use a backup performed to a client’s local

tape drive, select the “local (client tape)” option at the top of the list. In this case, the

Original Client

(owner) field will change to Client Name, and a new field, Device Name will appear.

3. If you selected a TSM Server, use the arrow button to select the

Original Client (owner). All backups

are stored on the server in a TSM filespace specific to each client, so you must know the original client
(node) the backup was created for. In this case, any client that was part of the backup job to be verified
will be sufficient, since we need to list the Backup IDs which that client is part of.

4. If

you

selected

local (client tape) in the

Server name field, you must select the Client Name and the

Device Name (BTAPE) from which to read the backup in the fields provided.

5. Press

the

Select

button next to the

Backup ID field. You will be provided a list of backup jobs on the

server in which the client is included, similar to the following example:

Select the specific backup job to read by clicking on the button to the left of the desired job.

6. Next, if there are multiple backup on the media, another screen will appear with a list of backups to

select from. For TSM backups, this list will contain all of the backups within the selected job. For tape
backups, there may be multiple jobs on the media. In this case, the list will contain all of the backups,
even those from different jobs. The information about the backup will be preceded by the backup
sequence number
, starting with 1 and ending with the last backup on the media.

The following is a sample of this screen:

You may select the backup from which to recreate the LV or filesystem by clicking on the button to the
left of the desired selection and a checkmark will appear in the button. Only one selection may be

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