A prompt for User Action is received while retrieving data to an empty directory.

Symptom

The following Tivoli Storage Manager client command is used to retrieve the "/testfs/testfile" file :

dsmc retrieve /testfs/testfile /empty

In this example, the retrieve is redirected to the /empty path, which is an empty directory.
The command prompts for action indicating the file already exists. For example :

Retrieving 400 /testfs/testfile --> /empty/testfile [Done]

--- User Action is Required ---
File '/tmp/testfile' exists

Select an appropriate action
1. Replace this object
2. Replace all objects that already exist
3. Skip this object
4. Skip all objects that already exist
A. Abort this operation
Action [1,2,3,4,A] : 1
Retrieving 400 /testfs/testfile --> /empty/testfile [Done]

Retrieve processing finished.

Total number of objects retrieved: 2
Total number of objects failed: 0
Total number of bytes transferred: 800 B
Data transfer time: 0.00 sec
Network data transfer rate: 7,533.48 KB/sec
Aggregate data transfer rate: 0.10 KB/sec
Elapsed processing time: 00:00:29


The following file is retrieved :

ls -al /empty/testfile:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 400 May 12 15:11 /tmp/testfile


The above data shows the file was retrieved twice because :

• A prompt is issued for user action indicating the file already exists.
• The amount of data retrieved (Total number of bytes transferred) is twice the size of the file. In this case, there were 800 bytes transferred for a 400 bytes file.