Installation and User's Guide

Chapter 5. Restoring your dataDuplicate file namesUse Tivoli Storage Manager to restore backup versions of specific files, a group offiles with similar names, or entire directories.You can restore these backup versions if the original files are lost or damaged.Select the files you want to restore using file specification (file path, name, andextension), a directory list, or a subdirectory path to a directory and itssubdirectories.All client backup and restore procedures in this topic also apply to the Web client,except the following:v Estimatev Preferences editorNote: When restoring a directory, its modification date and time is set to the dateand time of the restore, not to the date and time the directory had when it wasbacked up. This is because Tivoli Storage Manager restores the directories first,then adds the files to the directories.The following are the primary restore tasks:v “Restoring files and directories” on page 165v “Restoring system objects” on page 169v “Restoring Windows system state” on page 170v “Restoring Automated System Recovery files” on page 172v “Microsoft Dfs tree and file restore” on page 180v “Restoring an image” on page 181v “Restore data from a backup set” on page 183v “Restoring data to a point in time” on page 202v “Restore NAS file systems” on page 204v “Authorizing another user to restore or retrieve your files” on page 199v “Restoring or retrieving files from another client node” on page 200v “Restoring or retrieving your files to another workstation” on page 201v “Deleting file spaces” on page 202v “Restoring data from a VMware backup” on page 190Related tasks“Starting a Web client session” on page 89If you attempt to restore or retrieve a file whose name is the same as the shortname of an existing file, a file name collision occurs (existence of duplicate filenames).An example is when the file abcdefghijk.doc has a short name of abcdef~1.doc, andyou attempt to restore or retrieve a file explicitly named abcdef~1.doc into the samedirectory. In this case, a collision occurs because the name of the file you arerestoring conflicts with the short name for abcdefghijk.doc.© Copyright IBM Corp. 1993, 2010 163