Common tasks for restoring files

Different types of users set up and use the file restore feature. Each user is responsible for a set of tasks.

File owner

The file owner maintains business data such as text documents, spreadsheets, and presentation files.

The file owner completes the following tasks:

Administrator

The administrator creates initial software deployments, schedules virtual machine backups to the Tivoli Storage Manager server, and manages user accounts and permissions in the VMware environment.

The administrator completes the following tasks to set up the environment for file restore:
  1. Enabling the environment for file restore operations
  2. Backing up virtual machine data to Tivoli Storage Manager
  3. Optional: Setting up file restore operations on Linux

    When running Data Protection for VMware in a Linux environment or in combination with Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for VMware, the file restore feature must be installed on a Windows system to enable the file restore feature.

After the environment is ready for file restore operations, the following optional tasks can be done by the administrator: