This is a big question for me also.  Please any solution would be
helpful.

Dave Larimer
Dave_Larimer AT kne DOT com
ADSM administrator
KNEnergy, Inc.


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>From:  Julie Phinney[SMTP:julphinn AT EMPHESYS.E-MAIL DOT COM]
>Sent:  Tuesday, March 25, 1997 10:05 AM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Disaster test
>
>I need to do a restore test of our biggest ADSM client, from offsite
>tapes (I've been asked to do a test, someone heard a horror story about
>how long it took.)
>I ran a Q CON batch job on the Offsite tapepool that ran about 7 hours
>and wrote out 1000+ cylinders of mainframe DASD.  The client I'd need
>to restore has files spread across 158 tapes.  (As opposed to 41 tapes
>in the collocated onsite pool.)
>So it seems to me, I'll need to:
>1) Request those 158 tapes be brought back from the vault.
>2) Mark every onsite tape belonging to this node DESTROYED.
>3) Mark the 158 tapes ACC=READW
>4) Restore the client.
>My questions:
>1) If I do this, can I take them back when I'm done and return the
>   destroyed onsite tapes to not destroyed status?
>   (If I have to leave them onsite, then I no longer have offsite
>    copies of all the data on those tapes belonging to OTHER nodes.)
>2) Do I really need all 158?  Is it possible that some have only
>   inactive versions of files on them, and ADSM wouldn't call for them?
>3) Is there an easier way to find out which tapes ADSM will call for?
>4) There must be a better way to test a recovery of a client from
>   offsite tapes.  Does anyone know of a way?
>Thanks for any help!!!!!
>Julie Phinney
>JULPHINN @ EMPHESYS.E-MAIL.COM
>