Restoring your data

Use Tivoli® Storage Manager to restore backup versions of specific files, a group of files with similar names, or entire directories.

You can restore these backup versions if the original files are lost or damaged. Select the files that you want to restore by using a file specification (file path, name, and extension), a directory list, or a subdirectory path to a directory and its subdirectories.

Note: When you restore a directory, its modification date and time is set to the date and time of the restore operation, and not to the date and time the directory had when it was backed up. This is because Tivoli Storage Manager restores the directories first, then adds the files to the directories.

All client backup and restore procedures that are referenced by this topic also apply to the web client. However, the web client does not provide a Preferences Editor for setting client options.

Attention: Do not restore operating system files, like base system directories, kernel modules, or patches, to their original location while the file system is running. The operating system might hang or crash.

The following are the primary restore tasks:

AIX operating systems HP-UX operating systems Linux operating systems Oracle Solaris operating systems Mac OS X operating systems Refer to IBM® Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management for UNIX and Linux for details about restoring migrated files and the restoremigstate option.