> I used the restore volume command but it came back saying the volume
> contained files that could not be restored.  After many calls to IBM (I
> finally got level 3 help), I was told that there was no way to restore a
> single volume, or even a
> single node from disaster-recovery media.  My data was simply lost and
> un-recoverable (even though there was a copy of the data in DR).  I was told
> that DR was only meant to rebuild an entire library and had no ties to files
> or nodes.   I was told that if we lost our on-site location and needed to
> rely on our DR tapes, the first thing we would have to do is re-create our
> entire library.  That we could not use the DR tapes directly, they would
> first have to rebuild the entire library.

My site performed a disaster recovery test at a commercial hot site in March
1999. We used a recovery plan created by DRM to allocate the ADSM server
database and recovery log, and to restore the contents of the database. We
then declared all of the tapes back at our home site to be unavailable, and
all of the tapes brought from our vaulting company to be mountable read-only.
Once this was done we ran restore commands on client systems and the server
mounted the tapes from the vault and sent the appropriate files to the
clients.

The results of our test indicate that at least some of what you were told by
IBM was utter nonsense. I have never needed the 'restore volume' command
myself, but I have read the documentation for it. I see no way of reconciling
that documentation with a blanket statement that one cannot use offsite tapes
to recover from a single damaged volume.