I am having the same problem of restoring from a backupset with a tape drive
attached to a client. I was told by support that GUI won't support using a
local tape drive to restore from a backupset. Command line should work. But
not for me. These are what I have tried:
1) restore backupset \\.\Tape1 backupset_name -loc=tape
2) restore backupset \\.\Tape1\ backupset_name -loc=tape
3) restore backupset \\.\Tape1 \\nodename\c$\file_name -loc=tape
4) restore backupset \\.\Tape1 "\\nodename\c$\file_name" -loc=tape
5) restore backupset \\.\Tape1\ \\nodename\c$\file_name -loc=tape
6) restore backupset \\.\Tape1\ "\\nodename\c$\file_name" -loc=tape
7) restore backupset \\.\Tape1 \\nodename\c$\* -loc=tape
8) restore backupset \\.\Tape1 "\\nodename\c$\*" -loc=tape
9) restore backupset \\.\Tape1\ \\nodename\c$\* -loc=tape
10) restore backupset \\.\Tape1\ "\\nodename\c$\*" -loc=tape

I can actually see that the light on the tape drive is blinking, indicating
some activity. But After a few minitues, I would get "ANS1933E, Error
accessing file or device ''."

My client is 4.1 on a win2000 machine and server is 4.1.3 on AIX4.3.3. I am
testing using a 8mm tape drive. Tivoli support told me that 8mm and DLT are
supported tape device (not LTO).

any idea?

Jie