Gerald, This is a known requirement, is being submitted to the developers thru SHARE; a preview=yes option for restore/retrieve, which runs thru the database as if the restore is being processed --- specifically, to obtain the list of volumes that will be required.
So far, their response was (a) multi-thread restore feature (in 5.1) will make this more complicated, so (b) they may not list vols in the actual sequence (due to new parallelism) -- my answer was "the customer does not care, they just need the list" (at least, for now), as it's the reality that customers occasionally over-commit their silo capacity, need to do a restore while awaiting new hardware to match their (new) capacity requirements. You could construct a SELECT to do this, but it would take much longer than the actual restore code to rummage thru the related tables; doing select for a pseudo-join between backups and volumes -- backups using node and "active" status, correlating to contents... gotta be a painful way to do it, but the only precise way to do it. My favorite, less-precise way (that I use for any real customer situation) is just select from volumeusage based on node and storage pool name -- that gets you all the vols occupied, so it's distorted abit (due to versions), but, hey --- they should realize they need a silo large enough to hold ALL their backup data, else it's never gonna be lights-out (as intended) and you gotta go thru this pain! See Karel's reply for an example of this query... and watch for the new release info, for IBM's response. select distinct volume_name - from volumeusage where node_name='XYZ', - and filespace_name='ABC', - and stgpool_name = 'DEF' HTH! Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (change aye to a for replies) Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerald Wichmann Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Querying which volumes have a particular file or node Not exactly the answer I was looking for.. Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w) -----Original Message----- From: Raghu S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Querying which volumes have a particular file or node in Tivoli Storage Resource Manager all these are addressed raghu. Gerald Wichmann To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <gwichman@ZAN cc: TAZ.COM> Subject: Querying which volumes have a Sent by: particular file or node "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU> 11/26/2002 03:25 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Given a file with some filenames in it, does someone have a macro/command I can run against the filenames in that file to determine what volumes those files are on? I.e. so I can identify which offline volumes I need to put in my library for a restore before actually running the restore command. Similarly, given a node, how do I determine what volumes the node has data backed up to. I believe both these questions involve a select statement and have been discussed before so someone should have them handy. Thanks, Gerald This e-mail has been captured and archived by the ZANTAZ Digital Safe(tm) service. For more information, visit us at www.zantaz.com. IMPORTANT: This electronic mail message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or directly reply to the original message(s) sent. Thank you. This e-mail has been captured and archived by the ZANTAZ Digital Safe(tm) service. For more information, visit us at www.zantaz.com. IMPORTANT: This electronic mail message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or directly reply to the original message(s) sent. Thank you.