We ran into that exact problem...check your activity log and you may see
errors about bitfiles.  After reporting this to IBM the end result, from
the design/development team, was that ADSM was working as designed.  We
told them that we'd rather have the restore fail to restore files that
don't have copies (with appropriate error messages) than fail
completely.  Our Canadian level-two ADSM support agreed with us but were
told to submit it as a 'feature'-request.

The official ADSM way to do this would be to mark the primary tapes as
destroyed, run 'restore vol X preview=yes' to find out what copy tapes
are needed (looking in the activity log for error messages about
off-site copy tapes), bring the copy tapes on-site, run the 'restore vol
X' for real for each of the primary tapes.  As files are restored to new
primary stgpool volumes, the references for them on the 'destroyed'
volumes is removed.  At the end of the restore, the files that have no
copies will remain on the tapes.  At that point you can delete the
volumes with discarddata=yes and then the client restore will be able to
proceed.  Actually, I may be wrong in that when the 'restore volumes'
process finishes the no-copy files may automatically be removed and the
volumes deleted.

As you can see, you have to go through a lengthy volume-restore before
you can proceed with you client restore.  We didn't find that too
acceptable.  This problem affects both v2 and v3.

Cheers...

Alex Fagioli wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Over the week-end my client and I did disaster recovery
> testing................we recovered the server and decided to use the
> copy pool tapes. We marked all the primary tapes as destroyed and the
> checked in all the copy tapes. I then iniated a restore of both drives
> on the machine the primary disk being 1GB and the second disk 34GB.
> There were two major issues the frist being that, a message came up
> saying preparing and this took about 90mins. However the machine did at
> no time start the restore and at the end of 90mins it said that 24 files
> were unavaiable for restore. The problem is that these file were merely
> Word and Excel documents and were not really that important but they
> caused my entire restore to fail. I could restore seperate directories
> and all of the files system. My questions are - can I tell the restore
> to carry on withh the rest of the files without the restore failing and
> whhy would the ADSM database allow me to select those files if they were
> not available???????