Hi Julie -
You may want to specify the -QUIET option also. We have found that it speeds
up the restore.
I have seen the prompt to replace an existing file as recent as 3.1.0.6 on
the netware client, *SM 3.1.2.20 on NT.

Good Luck!

BTW: You may want to ask the owners of this box if there are specific
dir/files that will get them back in business and then
restore the rest after the priority stuff is back. Just a thought.

CR
        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Julie Phinney [SMTP:jphinney AT HUMANA DOT COM]
        Sent:   Tuesday, March 07, 2000 11:01 AM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Novell disaster - large restore

        We have to do a recovery of a large Novell server (100GB).   We have
TSM
        3.7 running on the OS/390 server.  We are going to put TSM on the
client
        before we start the restore  (installing it now).    (The backups
were done
        via ADSM 3.1.0.6)
        I'm going to recommend   RESOURCEUTILIZATION 10.
        Speed is the highest priority right now.   I did a select from
volumeusage
        to get a tape list, and it looks like 600 tapes...  though I suppose
all of
        them don't have active versions.
        We are going to be doing a simultaneous restore using Arcserve on
another
        box,  then using ADSM with the -IFN option     and will cancel the
first
        restore on the first box if it appears to be very slow,  so it won't
fight
        with the 2nd ADSM restore which will probably start in a few days.
        My question is    for PROCESSORUTILIZATION    there is no maximum?
I
        haven't fooled with that parm much before.    Do any of you have a
        recommendation?
        The restore will be of extreme priority,  nothing else should be
running on
        this machine.
        We're intending to do a RES   DATA:*     -SU=Y
        anything else that could make it faster?
        Is there any reason -REP=ALL  would be valuable?    I'm told it
should be
        an empty drive.   For restart purposes, maybe?
        Does -REP=ALL    slow things down?
        May be worth it to be safe and just specify it.     I wouldn't want
to be
        waiting on a prompt.
        I thought there were times before when restoring to a supposedly
empty
        drive, that we got prompted for replacement  (very old versions of
ADSM
        though)
        Thanks for any suggestions!
        Julie