Asnodename

Your client node must be granted access to the target node by the IBM® Storage Protect server administrative client grant proxynode command, and you must be a root user to use the asnodename option.

When the IBM Storage Protect administrator grants a node proxy authority, and you use the asnodename option to become that node, you can query and restore all files as if you had root authority.

An agent node is a client node that has been granted authority to perform client operations on behalf of a target node.

A target node is a client node that grants authority to one or more agent nodes to perform client operations on its behalf.

A proxy operation uses the settings for the target node (such as maxnummp and deduplication) and schedules that are defined on the server. The IBM Storage Protect server node settings and schedules for the agent node are ignored.

/cluster1/mydata

dsmc incremental /Users -asnodenodename=MyCluster 

You can also use the asnodename option to restore data under another node name on the server. You can only restore the data that you own.

The asnodename option differs from the nodename option as follows:

• When using the nodename option, you must enter the password for the node name you specify.
• When using the asnodename option, you must enter the password for your client agent node to access the data stored for the client target node.

Restriction: You cannot use the asnodename option with -fromnode and you cannot perform NAS backup using asnodename. Also, asnodename can be used for clustered systems, although no specific cluster software is supported.

Limitation: When you use the asnodename option, for example in an IBM Storage Scale cluster environment, the backup-archive client GUI displays the message "No backups found. Create backups before using this UI." You must first configure a specific server stanza to be used by the dsmcad command, for the backup-archive client GUI to use directly with the asnodename option.