Installation and User's Guide

Deleting file spacesWhen you use the Windows client to recover files with long names to an NTFSdisk, the long names are preserved, even if you are recovering the file to adifferent type of drive than the source drive.Related tasks“Authorizing another user to restore or retrieve your files” on page 199“Restoring or retrieving files from another client node” on page 200If your Tivoli Storage Manager administrator grants you authority, you can deleteentire file spaces from the server.You cannot delete individual backup copies that are kept on the server. When youdelete a file space, you delete all the files, both backup copies and archive copies,that are contained within the file space. For example, if you delete the file spacefor your C drive, you are deleting every backup copy for every file on that diskand every file that you archived from that disk.Attention:Carefully consider what you are doing before you delete a file space.You can delete file spaces using the GUI or the command-line client. To deletenetwork-attached storage (NAS) file spaces, use the Web client or command-lineclient.To delete a file space using the GUI client, perform the following steps:1. From the main window, click Utilities → Delete Filespaces.2. Select the file spaces you want to delete.3. Click Delete. Tivoli Storage Manager prompts you for confirmation beforedeleting the file space.You can also delete a file space using the delete filespace command. Use the classoption with the delete filespace command to delete NAS file spaces.Related reference“Class” on page 316“Delete Filespace” on page 562Restoring data to a point in timeUse a point-in-time restore to restore files to the state that existed at a specific dateand time.A point-in-time restore can eliminate the effect of data corruption by restoring datafrom a time prior to known corruption, or recover a basic configuration to a priorcondition.You can perform a point-in-time restore of a system object, file space, directory, orfile. You can also perform a point-in-time restore of image backups.Perform incremental backups to support a point-in-time restore. During anincremental backup, the client notifies the server when files are deleted from aclient file space or directory. Selective and incremental-by-date backups do notnotify the server about deleted files. Run incremental backups at a frequencyconsistent with possible restore requirements.202 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients: Installation and User's Guide