> We had a point in time restore from Novell client (GUI).
> Runtime about 1.5 hours and restored 6.5MB.
> The restore-process needed 2 3590E carts twice and 1 3590E for 3 times.
> Other 9 3590E tapes for onetime.(11 Volumes for 200GB total?)

> Is it normal the tapes are needed more then one time? Do i missing some
restore
> parameter?  (for example like 'noquery')

I have seen tapes mounted twice for one restore to Windows and Unix.
As far as I can tell, this happens because files spanned across two
or more tapes are not handled very intelligently. For example, TSM
will mount a tape that ends with the first segment of a spanned file,
mount the tape containing the rest of the file, mount some other tapes,
and then remount the second tape to read files contained entirely on
that tape.