I would put the data on disk for this temporary period of time.  This will
allow better client threading and elimnate the contention on tape.
Generally, this is hard to do with filesystem incremental backups since, but
since you are running a level 0, it would work.

Then break up the restore and start.

Jeff Bach

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seay, Paul [SMTP:seay_pd AT NAPTHEON DOT COM]
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 5:17 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: backing up to tape/OS/390
>
> COLLOCATE is the answer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) [mailto:JWholey AT EXCHANGE.ML DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:41 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: backing up to tape/OS/390
>
>
> Environment:
> System/390
> device type: Cartridge/3590
> TSM 4.1.3 Server
> TSM client 3.1.06
>
>
> Scenario:
> I get notified in advance that I'll need to restore multiple clients (gigs
> worth of data) on a given weekend.  I manually kick off a base backup to a
> "spare" TSM server on Friday night so when the
> call comes in (over the weekend) to restore the servers, I restore from a
> relatively quiet TSM server.  I'm not contending with the production
> backup
> cycle.
>
> The problem:
> This backed up data gets migrated to tape prior to my restore.
> Invariably,
> multiple servers' data ends up on one tape.  i.e. only one server can
> restore at a time.
>
> The question:
> Is there a way to direct the backup data of a particular server to a
> specific tape so I can run multiple restores from multiple tapes at the
> same
> time?  This is killing me...  Good suggestions would
> be appreciated.
>
> Regards, Joe


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