I am usually answering yes and Inever wait for very long time.

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of David 
E Ehresman [deehre01 AT LOUISVILLE DOT EDU]
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 7:39 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] archive convert

On unix client tsm 5.5, ballpark how long should I expect it to take to convert 
2 filespaces, 2311 directories, and 22532 files after getting ANS5148W The 
server needs to do a one-time
              conversion of your archive data
              before you can continue. This
              operation may take a long time,
              and cannot be canceled once it
              has started. Are you willing to
              wait for the conversion to complete?
on the gui after clicking the Retireve button?

the server is tsm 5.5 running on aix 5.3.

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