It depends on the file spaces more than anything on the current release. Basically, you can issue a restore command for each file space which is a drive letter on NT and a mount point on UNIX (or a TSM virtual mount point). If the restores collide with each other they will wait for the tape to be released. Collocation prevents that to a large degree.
Under V5.1 enhancements are coming that will do it dynamically for you. -----Original Message----- From: MacMurray, Andrea (CC-ETS Ent Storage Svcs) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Large TSM Client Restore Question As much as I know it will be asking for each tape sequentially.So you can run as many restores as you have tape drives at the same time. Andrea Mac Murray -----Original Message----- From: Sutch, Ian (London) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Large TSM Client Restore Question hi Does anybody know the answer to this: If you perform a full restore for a very large tsm client and that clients data spans several tape media (say 4 volumes, even with collocation on) would tsm try and mount all 4 volumes to 4 tape drives and then run the restore or would it call the 4 volumes sequentially to 1 tape drive as and when until the restore is complete? I'm doing a DR exercise and am trying to workout how many simultaneous client restores I could do with 4 tape drives. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
