Tim,
Thanks for the info. Actually now that you mentioned it, I recall you had
warned me about the server messages, ANR1421W, in a reply to an earlier
post of mine. I guess I just didn't expect things to be that bad.

At 07:26 AM 5/7/97 -0400, you wrote:
>David,
>        This depends on whether you have collocation enabled or disabled for
>your offsite tapes.  I did come across a perfomance bug at our DR test
>in April.  It turns out there's a problem in ADSM when recovering a
>client directly from the offsite storagepool if the onsite copy was in a
>disk storagepool when the offsite copy was taken.  ADSM will issue an
>ANR1421W message on the server console for EVERY file being restored and
>a corresponding 'ANS4118I Waiting for mount of offline media' on the
>client.  This causes ADSM to stop between every file being restored - we
>ended up seeing thruput of about 2,000 files, 40 MB of data, in 90
>minutes.  APAR IX67738 was opened.
>
>Tim Pittson
>tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com
>
>>----------
>>From:  David Ong[SMTP:david AT BABYONG.NSC DOT COM]
>>Sent:  Monday, May 05, 1997 8:46 PM
>>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>>Subject:       3590 Read Performance
>>
>>Hello ADSMers,
>>
>>Last week I had the misfortune of doing our very first DR exercise which
>>involved recovering our ADSM server, v2.1.0.9 on AIX 4.1.4 and then using
>>ADSM to recover an AIX 4.1.4 node. The ADSM server recovery part went
>>pretty much as planned and rather smoothly. The biggest stumbling block we
>>ran into was the amount of time it took to restore data from the 'offsite'
>>3590 tape. For example, to restore a file system with 10,933 files and a
>>total of 732 MBs, took over 3.5 hours. Question: Is this the kind of
>>performance one should expect from the 3590s? I would appreciate hearing
>>from anybody with experience restoring from 3590 tapes.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Have a nice day or whatever's left of it.
>>
>>David Ong
>>National Semiconductor Corp.
>>
>
>

Have a nice day or whatever's left of it.

David Ong
National Semiconductor Corp.