Gerald Wichmann
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:58 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: multiple tape drives


In the case of a ibm3494 with 4 tape drives, what happens in the case o=
f a
restore as far as the way TSM utilizes those drives? Will it take advan=
tage
of the fact that there are 4 tape drives and mount 4 tapes to restore
quicker (assuming data is on 4 different tapes)?

For example what if I have an Oracle database with =BD a Terabyte of da=
ta
backed up to my TSM server. Obviously this data is going to be across
multiple tapes. Now when it comes time to do a restore, how many drives=

will
it use to do the restore or what factors determine this?

Thanks

Gerald Wichmann
RS Engineer
Sansia System Solutions
408-844-8893 work
408-844-9801 fax

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