I used two at once with good luck.  At the time I only had 2 drives.
Restoring from NT TSM 4.1.3 to a single Novell server running two instances
of the Novell TSM client doing the restores of different file systems.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: brian welsh [SMTP:brianwelsh3 AT HOTMAIL DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 3:22 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Multiple restore sessions
>
> Hello,
>
> AIX 5.1, TSM 4.2.2.8 (soon upgrading to 5.1)
>
> I'm wondering if someone have good experiences with multiple restore
> sessions. We have 4 drives in our library. When there are no other
> processes
> and a client is starting a restore and files are spread over several
> tapes,
> will there be up to 4 simultanious sessions for restoring?
>
> Is it necessary to set collocation off, before you can use multiple
> restore
> sessions, or with collocation enabled and data for one client spread over
> more tapes it is also possible to get multiple restore-sessions?
>
> Thanx,
>
> Brian.
>
>
>
>
>
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