How do you achive to use 10 tapes for restore 
do you have 10 different filespaces?

With Regards Stefan Holzwarth

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Shekhar Dhotre [mailto:shekhar.dhotre.b AT BAYER DOT COM]
> Gesendet am: Freitag, 5. Januar 2001 15:11
> An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff: Re: how to speed up NT restore?
> 
> 
> Hi i know your problem,
> The first thing i did after coming back from DR test , is 
> that i enabled
> collocation on tapepool and copypool ,
> try to  configure and define more drives to TSM , that is one 
> way to go around ,
> I did restore with 8-10 drives , in stk9710
> 2 gone bad after some time :-) but was sufficient.
> Also check TCP/IP window size parameter in dsmserv.opt file   
> if it is 0 make it
> 512 , recycle TSM ..That will help to
> imrove performance ...  .. You can start restartable restores 
> if TSM disconnect
> in between restoration.
> Good luck
> 
> shekhar
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Peter Koblauch <Peter_Koblauch AT MANULIFE DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> 
> on 01/05/2001
> 07:57:32 AM
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> Subject:  how to speed up NT restore?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
>     I have been restoring  an NT client for about 8 hours 
> now, a bare-metal
> restore.
>     The server is an RS/6000 at ADSM 3.10.
>    The problem is that it until now only some MBs have been 
> restored and
> the client
>     will need many GBs before it is done   ... Looks like 
> this could take
> days.
> 
>    The activity log and 'q session' shows that the restore 
> session is doing
> numerous
>     ( DLT) tape mounts, and even when no mounts are 
> outstanding very little
> data is
>    transferred from the server to the client. Looks like the 
> data for this
> client might be spread
>    over hundreds of tapes. The storage pool for this client is not
> collocated.
> 
>    Is there a way to speed up the restore?
>    Would it make sense to do an "export node"  to tapes followed by an
> "import node"  in order to force
>    the data to fewer tapes or would I then just be spending 
> time in the
> "export" instead?
>    Is there something else I can do?
> 
> --
> any help would be appreciated!
> 
>   thanks,
>     Peter Koblauch
> 
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