Does anyone know if there is an APAR for this? This just bit us in the butt.... big time on a LAN-free Exchange restore.
Regards, Matt Adams Tivoli Storage Manager Team Hermitage Site Tech Deloitte and Touche USA LLP Forum: ADSM.ORG - ADSM / TSM Mailing List Archive Date: May 13, 02:25 From: Norback, Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sergey, Yes, the LAN path isn't used! Thus the restore will fail when the object is on disk. Even worse is that in our case it failed in the end of a large restore after first having restored the online backups and in the end the transaction logs that unfortunately were on a disk pool. The following is part of the answer from IBM regarding this problem. There is nothing in here about API/TDP but it gives you the idea about how development seems to see this problem (feature). Of course we do not migrate to disk in our case but the outcome is the same: "Doc #1067224 - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager: Files not restorable in a LAN-Free environment Problem Desc: In a LAN-Free environment files that have migrated to storage pools who's device classes are not SAN attached or accessible (such as devclass DISK) can become un-retrievable to your LAN-Free enabled client unless special actions are taken. Solution: Files that are stored in storage pools that are not SAN attached or accessible have to be moved over the LAN path. In most cases the customer runs into a problem when attempting to restore a single active file or and inactive copy of any number of files. The reason is that the customer is not performing a 'no query restore'. A no query restore is defined as any restore using an unrestricted wildcard source file specification, and not using any of the options: INACTIVE, PICK, FROMDATE or TODATE. For example: dsmc restore /home/myfiles/* A LAN-Free enabled client must use a 'non query restore' to enable a duel session restore over LAN-Free. This duel session restore allows the client to open more than one concurrent session. These 2 sessions allow the client to retrieve data over the LAN-Free path and the LAN path on the same run. In cases where a 'no query restore' is not possible then you will need to retrieve files that are not LAN accessible by disabling 'enable lanfree' from your dsm.sys (dsm.opt in windows) file. Customers typically run into this problem for performance reasons. Small files do not transfer efficiently over LAN-Free connections due to the meta data overhead. Thus they set up policy so that small files are moved over the LAN to a DISK storage pool. In order to reduce this problems impact TSM administrators should migrate these DISK storage pools to a LAN-Free accessible storage pool as soon as possible. " Jan This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited.