You could try to check, on which tape your data is (Volumeusage-Table)
And than, make a MOVE DATA from this tape to your diskpool (Maybe you have to
increase your diskpool) and than start the restores. When all of your files are
on the diskpool, your restore will complete without any Media Waits.....

Gerhard Wolkerstorfer





JWholey AT EXCHANGE.ML DOT COM am 26.01.2002 04:41:16

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Thema:    backing up to tape/OS/390



Environment:
System/390
device type: Cartridge/3590
TSM 4.1.3 Server
TSM client 3.1.06


Scenario:
I get notified in advance that I'll need to restore multiple clients (gigs worth
of data) on a given weekend.  I manually kick off a base backup to a "spare" TSM
server on Friday night so when the
call comes in (over the weekend) to restore the servers, I restore from a
relatively quiet TSM server.  I'm not contending with the production backup
cycle.

The problem:
This backed up data gets migrated to tape prior to my restore.  Invariably,
multiple servers' data ends up on one tape.  i.e. only one server can restore at
a time.

The question:
Is there a way to direct the backup data of a particular server to a specific
tape so I can run multiple restores from multiple tapes at the same time?  This
is killing me...  Good suggestions would
be appreciated.

Regards, Joe