Recently we had a drive on one of our servers accidentally deleted, and so a TSM restore process was started to recover the information that was lost. The restore was thought to be a success, but as days went by, more and more users were reporting that files were missing. I queried the summery tables for the restore sessions of that particular server and noticed that even though it says it was successful, it did not finish because for whatever reason the session was lost (network outage, etc). We did not think to look and see if there was a restartable restore at the time, because the restore was reported as being successful. When we opened a ticket IBM support, this is what we got: "If the restore process stops because of a power outage or network
failure, the server records the point at which this occurred. This record is known to the client as a restartable restore." -IBM TSM My question is how does the client inform you that there is a restartable restore that needs to be done, and why in the database, is it showing that the restore session was successful, when in fact this is false. Is there something that we missed? Any help in this regards would be greatly appreciated. Mel Dennis
