You did not described how you invoked the restore and how many files are
there in the filespace. When no-query restore is performed and the
filespace contains 10^5 - 10^6 files, the time needed the server to build
the list of files might be significant. This is if migration end was
coincidence.
OTOH it is possible restore needed the same tape used for migration. When
you have a transaction, the server completes the batch and only then
process preemption occurs.

Was restore performed from the same tape used for migration or
dismount/mount of another one took place?

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






"Gill, Geoffrey L." <GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM>
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        Subject:        Restore in idle


I am watching a computer sit idle waiting for the TSM server to do
something
with the restore session open. After selecting files and clicking restore
it
has been 15 minutes and nothing has happened. I know it needs to mount a
tape yet I see no drives in reserved status. Nor does a q sess f=d show a
media access status. All the TSM server is doing was expiration.



Once migration kicked off it looks like it finally decided to kick in. Not
sure if that was just coincidence or what. I don't normally see this much
wait time from the time I click restore to the TSM server actually doing
something.



Any insight as to why the long delay???



TSM Server AIX 4.3.3, TSM 5.1.6.3

Client NT4 SP6a, TSM 5.1.5.15

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (877) 905-7154