We just did a large restore of an NT box, and got the multi-session restore working.
As others have said, make sure the RESOURCEUTILIZATION on the client's dsm.sys is set to more than 1, and the MAXNUMMP for the client's node definition in the server is GREATER or EQUAL to the RESOURCEUTILIZATION (the manual states that if RESOURCEUTILIZATION is greater, you may get errors). Final requirement is that a RESTARTABLE RESTORE is done. The manual (for Windows client) says that choosing any drive or directory will work, but we found that you must select an entire drive to get the multiople sessions. Unix equivalent would be an entire filesystem, although I haven't tested it on Unix yet... it may be a Windows client restriction. Also, the manual says that additional sessions are only started when data resides on a different tape volume, so there *should* not be any contention problems... and we didn't have that issue, with eight sessions running. Good Luck Robin Sharpe Berlex Labs "MC Matt Cooper (2838)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TINGS.COM> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Dist Stor Manager" how to get multi-session restore to work? <[EMAIL PROTECTED] DU> 06/03/03 10:16 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Hello all, I have an AIX platform that I know had a multi-session backup done. However, the restore seems to be a single thread. What haven't I done? The TSM client is 5.1.0 the server is 5.1.5.4. The restore was initiated with the gui. Matt