Authorizing another user to restore or retrieve your files

You can authorize a user on another node to restore your backup versions or retrieve your archive copies. In this way, you can share files with other people or with other workstations that you use with a different node name.

About this task

You can also authorize other nodes to access the automated system recovery (ASR) file space.

Another node can be used to create the ASR diskette so that the workstation can be recovered using ASR and the backup-archive client. Use the other node if a problem occurs with the workstation and the ASR diskette of the workstation is not available.

To authorize another node to restore or retrieve your files:

Procedure

Click Utilities → Node Access List from the main window.
In the Node Access List window, click the Add button.
In the Add Access Rule window, select an item in the Permit Access field to specify the type of data that the other user can access. You can select either Backed up Objects or Archived Objects.
Type the node name of the user in the Grant Access to Node field. Type the node name of the host workstation of the user in the Grant Access to Node field.
Type the user ID on the host workstation in the User field.
In the Filespace and Directory field, select the file space and the directory that the user can access. You can select one file space and one directory at a time. If you want to give the user access to another file space or directory, you must create another access rule.
If you want to limit the user to specific files in the directory, type the name or pattern of the files on the server that the other user can access in the Filename field. You can make only one entry in the Filename field. It can either be a single file name or a pattern that matches one or more files. You can use a wildcard character as part of the pattern. Your entry must match files that have been stored on the server.
If you want to give access to all files that match the file name specification within the selected directory including its subdirectories, click Include subdirectories.
Click OK to save the access rule and close the Add Access Rule window.
The access rule that you created is displayed in the list box in the Node Access List window. When you have finished working with the Node Access List window, click OK. If you do not want to save your changes, click Cancel or close the window.

Results

For example, to give the node user2 access to all backup files and subdirectories under the d:\user1 directory, create a rule with the following values:

Permit Access to: Backed up Objects
Grant Access to Node: user2
Filespace and Directory: d:\user1
Filename: *
Include subdirectories: Selected

The node you are authorizing must be registered with your IBM Spectrum Protect™ server.

On the command line of the client, use the set access command to authorize another node to restore or retrieve your files. You can also use the query access command to see your current list, and delete access to delete nodes from the list.