Marc,

This could be a bug.  It's hard to tell
without looking more closely at the configuration.
The Storage Agent should be going after the
data over the LAN.

Please call IBM support so they can assist you.

Thanks,

Del

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IBM Corporation
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> Hi Del
>
> The specific error we are getting is as follows:
>
> 11/19/2002 12:56:50   ANR1421W (Session: 3523, Origin: DWHSTAGE)  Read
access
>                        denied for volume E:\TSMDATA\SERVER1\MSSQLMETA.DSM
-
>                        volume offline.
>
> This volume is not offline. Also If i disable the LANFREE then I can
retrieve the metadata from the diskpool. It almost seems that although the
management class controls the backup process, the restore has no way of
knowing that it should requestthe metadat across the LAN, when it is
getting the actual DATA from the tapes on the SAN.