Is the client Windows? If so, you should have been using the DIRMC
technique to back up Windows directory objects to an online storage
pool.

But, now that you are restoring, it's too late for that. Halt the
restore, and run MOVE NODEDATA to an online DISK or FILE storage pool.
It can be a temporary online storage pool just for this restore. Then
run your restore, and it will go fast. When this restore is done, let it
migrate back to tape.

BACKGROUND: Windows directory objects are too large to fit in the TSM
database, so they are written to the storage pools along with the data,
and eventually migrated to tape. When restoring, TSM has to restore all
the directory objects first, which may only be a few bytes per tape, so
it's going to mount tapes over and over restoring only a very small
amount of data each time, until it rebuilds the entire directory tree so
it can start restoring actual data. OTOH, Unix (AIX, Solaris, Linux,
MacOSX...) directory objects are a lot smaller, and fit in the TSM
database itself, so you won't experience this problem with Unix clients.

The workaround has always been to use DIRMC to direct Windows directory
objects to a different Management Class that is stored online. They're
not that large, so you can afford to keep them online. (Search the
ADSM-L archives for DIRMC and you'll find lots of information about it.)

But if you are stuck with this problem, and you are doing a restore, the
only immediate workaround to get your restore to finish in a reasonable
amount of time is MOVE NODEDATA to an online storage pool. This applies
to all releases of TSM, Server v5.5 or later.

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu
======I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=====


On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Kiran wrote:

>Hi, We are using TSM Server and client 5.5 .5 . We are facing slow
>restoration issue.
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>Our restore size is 4TB.
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>Usually whenever we perform restore (dsm restore) or with GUI BA Client it
>should display the following
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>ANR1182I Removable volume 000519L2 is required for a restore request from
>session 553
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>But restore session is mounting all tapes with creating directory structure
>instead of data along with the directories.
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>Please help.
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>Regards,
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>Kiran
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