Hi TSM-development, my situation ============ 1. we are an AFS-site, where the user's HOME's are in AFS and every user has it's own filespace, resulting in ca. 20000 filespaces. 2. A normal filespace has the following naming: /afs/tu-bs.de/usr/usrXX/individual-user whereby the XX is actually the resp. user's UID modulo 100, i.e. let XX=$UID%100 3. The actual backup is done in 4 streams in parallel, i.e. stream A processes /afs/tu-bs.de/usr/usr0 ... /usr24 stream B processes /afs/tu-bs.de/usr/usr25 ... /usr49 stream C processes /afs/tu-bs.de/usr/usr50 ... /usr74 stream D processes /afs/tu-bs.de/usr/usr75 ... /usr99 in a loop over the given range of "usrXX", checking wether the AFS-volume of the resp. user has been changed during the last 3 days. 4. This process works fine, i.e. we process all our AFS-USER-HOMES in about 2-3 hours on an IBM H70, 1GB, 100MBit Ethernet Now the problem =============== 5. If a user tries to do a restore via a dsm/dsmafs-wrapper, which sets an environment-variable called USER_DIR, which is subsequently used in dsm.sys via VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT ${USER_DIR} and in dsm.opt DOMAIN ${USER_DIR} the user is then presented with the ca. 20000 filespaces of user's he isn't interested in and finding HIS filespace is really not very much fun. 6. If we create a 1-line "$HOME/.adsmrc" containing FindStartPath.Restore=$USER_DIR we can tell the user to use the "looking glas"-icon to start with the propper path in the "Find Files (Restore)"-window which makes life much easier. Now my questions: ================= 7. Is the time- AND resource-wasting build-up of the ca. 20000 presented filespaces necessary or is there a shortcut in just presenting the requested filespace ( given by VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT / DOMAIN ) ? 8. The feature in 6. is undocumented. Please give Your comments on this. Hope for some answer -- MfG / Ciao - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Peter Dümpert Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rechenzentrum der Technischen Universität Fax : ++49/531/391-5549 D 38092 Braunschweig Tel : ++49/531/391-5535