I don't believe there is a PREVIEW=YES for the client restore command. Unless the access of the tape the file was on is UNAVAILABLE or DESTROYED it should have requested the mount. Did you query the server activity log for around the time you did the restore to see if there were any indications on why the volume couldn't be mounted?
Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Bantz Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Indentifying archived/backed up volume numbers? Can you try running the restore command with "preview=yes"? That **should** give you an idea of what volumes the system will request, I believe. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Hund Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Indentifying archived/backed up volume numbers? Hi all, I have a question related to identifying the tape or volume number that a file (or set of files) resides on. If I had to, for example, restore a file from 08/01 called /home/test.file, I would identify the volume # that file is on by doing the following: >From the TSM command line: tsm> rest "/home/test.file" -fromdate=08/01/2004 -todate=08/01/2004 tsm> -pick -ina I'd pick my file from the list, and while Tivoli attempted to load the tape that file is one, I'd do a "q req" from another telnet session to see which tape # the machine was trying to load. This process seems to work well some of the time, but occasionally I find myself getting a message like: ANS4035W File '/shared/UfsDump_20030723' currently unavailable on server ... and then the retrieve or restore gets "**Interrupted**" and you can't find out which tape # the file is on. I see this same thing whether I'm doing a retrieve or a restore. So my question, then: is there a better way to identify the volume # a file, or set of files, resides on? It sure seems like Tivoli would have come up with a better method than this. I'm still a Tivoli newbie, so I haven't learned all the tricks yet. :) I figured if there was a better way, someone on this list would surely know. Many thanks, Chris Hund
