Your Note 1 tells you why - TSM is likely storing the data on only one
tape, hence the single tape mount.  Depending on what version of TSM you
have, you might want to do a "move nodedata" to a disk pool prior to
starting the restore, which would allow multiple restore sessions.

Nick Cassimatis

----- Forwarded by Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM on 10/31/2005 08:47 PM
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 10/31/2005
05:03:33 PM:

> I am trying to restore from tape. How do I specify to do multiple
> tape mount for
> single session restore?
>
> Note 1: Node data is collocated in TSM
> Note 2: I have maximum tape mount as 4 for this node. But still it mounts
only
> one tape.
>
> Regards
> Muthu
> 202-458-8340 - Work