On Sep 26, 2006, at 8:46 AM, Adrian Compton wrote:

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It may also be worthwhile creating it as a RLV before restoring.
Have you any ideas/experience/cautions in doing this. I dont want
to be
gung-ho in our approach here.

Adrian -

You'll find RLVs to be delightfully simple to implement, compared
with TSM volumes in file systems.  Collected nuances and details,
based upon experience, can be found in topic
   Raw logical volume
in  http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts
or the TSM Wiki.  There are IBM Technotes, at least some of which are
noted in the QuickFacts.  The TSM Admin Guide and TSM Performance
Tuning Guide should be the principal references, of course.  The List
archives also contain experiential information.

   Richard Sims