Adding to that, why not create an instant archive or a backupset to restore 
from?

It gives you a snapshotted version of the data. The only drawback is, if
the TSM server is busy enough already, the archive/backupset might take as long
as the restore.

Cheers, Suad
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:26:12AM -0800, Doug Thorneycroft wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:26:12AM -0800, Doug Thorneycroft wrote:
> Try using the -fromdate option, this will only restore objects backed up after
> the date entered
> in fromdate. I've played around with it (Small Scale, not full testing) and 
> the
> restore runs much
> faster than a full restore with -ifnewer.
>
> On Tuesday, February 20, 2001 7:24 AM, Christoph Pilgram
> [SMTP:Christoph.Pilgram AT BC.BOEHRINGER-INGELHEIM DOT COM] wrote:
> > Hy all,
> >
> > within the next few days I have to restore some large disk-volumes to new
> > disks on a Netware-Server. Because its in production, I can't stop the
> > server for the whole restore time. The volumes are about 260GB in size. The
> > backup-data are spanned over about 24 tapes (3590E), so restore takes a
> > while.
> > The data can not be mirrored.
> > My idea is to restore the complete data to the new volumes while users work
> > on the old ones. After finishing this restore, I want to do another
> > incremental backup of the old volumes to get the meanwhile changed data.
> >
> > But : how do I get only these data to the new volumes without touching all
> > the other older data on the tapes ???
> >
> > TSM-Server : AIX 4.3  TSM 3.7.4
> > Netware-Version : 5.0   TSM-Client 3.7.2
> >
> > Thanks for help
> > Christoph