Restore user-defined disk drives for integrated Windows servers

Although you can now back up individual files and directories (see Back up individual integrated Windows server files and directories), the fastest way to restore large amounts of data is to restore the entire storage space. If you back up your user storage space from the \QFPNWSSTG directory, you can restore only the entire storage space. See Back up user-defined disk drives for an integrated Windows server. You cannot restore individual files from this backup.

To restore disk drives in the integrated file system, do this:

  1. If you are restoring from save media, ensure that you have mounted your media.
  2. If there are no network server storage spaces currently exist on the system (none appear when you use the WRKNWSSTG command), you must create the /QFPNWSSTG directory before you can restore network server storage spaces that you saved beneath that directory. To create the /QFPNWSSTG directory, complete these steps:
    1. On the i5/OS™ command line, type CRTNWSSTG to create a network server storage space and press F4.
    2. Provide a name for the storage space.
    3. Use the minimal size allowed and specify the appropriate disk pool (ASP).
    4. Press Enter to create the storage space. i5/OS creates the storage space in the /QFPNWSSTG directory.
  3. To restore the storage spaces, type RST and press F4.
  4. In the Objects: name field, specify '/QFPNWSSTG/stgspc' and 'dev/QASPnn/stgspc.UDFS', where stgspc is the name of the network server storage space and nn is the number of the disk pool.
    Note:
    To restore the .UDFS object to an independent disk pool, the disk pool device must be varied on. Specify 'dev/independent ASP name/stgspc.UDFS' where independent ASP name is the name of the independent disk pool and stgspc is the name of the network server storage space.
  5. Specify values for any other parameters that you want and press Enter to restore the storage space.
  6. You also need to restore any predefined disk drives that are associated with the server and restore the NWSD. See Restore integrated Windows server NWSDs. When you are done restoring the NWSD and all its associated disk drives, vary on the integrated server.