Desigan,

"Restore failed: Requested data is offline." means your files
are on tape.  You must use the Exchange Agent Options Editor
(Press the "Edit" button on the Backup Tab while the
desired server is highlighted.).
Check the box that says "Wait for Tape Mounts".
Then press the "OK" button.
This tells the Agent that if your data is on tape, it will
wait for the ADSM Server to mount the tape.

When you ended the backup manually, it appears that things
didn't get cleaned up properly before the restore.
If you are still having problems, please let me know.

Del Hoobler
ADSM Agent Development

>> Hi all
>>
>> We're running ADSM Connect Agent try and buy + fix on an NT 4.0 Server
>> with Exchange Server 5.5. Our ADSM server is v3.1 running on MVS 5.2.2.
>> We've done 1 full backup, made a couple changes to the database, ran a
>> differential backup and then a full backup. I tried this morning to
>> restore the first full backup (ie. Before changes) and got the message
>> from the GUI:
>> Restore failed: Requested data is offline.
>> I got the same error when trying to restore the other backups.
>>
>> I started a backup and ended it as soon as data was being transferred. I
>> then tried to restore again and did not get the error, but instead got
>> the message:
>> 2 of 2 files restored.
>>
>> But the byte count was 0 bytes transferred for both DIR and IS.
>>
>> Please help.
>>
>> Desigan Moodley
>> Systems Support Storage
>> Tel: (011) 359-1721
>> <DesiganM AT Transnet.co DOT za <mailto:DesiganM AT Transnet.co DOT za> >