Re: PIT-Restore does not show dirs

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Zarnowski
TSM is very complex. It has a lot of options and features. Training sessions are a great way to show users how to use the product, but not as a means to discuss the non-intuitive parts of the product and how to get around them. There are too many of them. Why not address the non-intuitive

Re: PIT-Restore does not show dirs

2006-08-02 Thread Bos, Karel
: PIT-Restore does not show dirs Hi all, I try do do an point-in-time-restore to the 19-Jul-2006 on a w2k-Server (TSM Client 5.3.4.0). I can go down in the gui just to the mountpoint but I dont see that base-directory. Do I make a pit-recovery 20-Jul-2006 it shows the base-directory as inactive

Re: PIT-Restore does not show dirs

2006-08-02 Thread Andrew Raibeck
It's not just a matter of the retention values, but also the number of versions. Assuming you run backup on a daily basis, if an object changes every day, then you will only be able to restore that object up to 10 days ago. Thus for the case of an object changing every day, the 184 day retention

Re: PIT-Restore does not show dirs

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Does anyone else out there think that this is a bad design? We have lots of users who fall into this trap, and I'm tiring of having to explain it to them. First, they use PIT-restore when they don't need to, because it's one of the first things they see in the restore GUI. Then, they don't see

Re: PIT-Restore does not show dirs

2006-08-02 Thread Aaron Becar
End user training is also very important and disclosures and other documentation should be given to the user so situations do not happen. To you have training meetings or anything like that? Documentation about how it works and what you business process are for TSM should all be known by the end

PIT-Restore does not show dirs

2006-08-01 Thread Christoph Pilgram
Hi all, I try do do an point-in-time-restore to the 19-Jul-2006 on a w2k-Server (TSM Client 5.3.4.0). I can go down in the gui just to the mountpoint but I dont see that base-directory. Do I make a pit-recovery 20-Jul-2006 it shows the base-directory as inactive. With a pit-restore from