We are experiencing the same issue with the tape being the bottle neck. I have thought through this and the only thing I can think of is creating 2 offsite copies so the servers have 2 tapes instead of 1 to fight over... This is about all I could come up with unfortunately, and I don't even know if this will work honestly.
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:32 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Restore of AIX/Linux servers at DR test Hi Everybody, We are investigating ways of improving the way our servers can be restored at a DR test. For AIX/Linux servers once the server's OS has been restored, how has everyone's experience been at restoring application filesystems on UNIX based systems ? For instance, let's say you have 20 servers having data ( aside from the OS ) of between 100 and 150Gb. What is the best way to restore the data ? We have caching turned on the storage pools so some of the data is restore from our storage pools, but the majority of data is on tape and that tapes seem to be the bottleneck. We tried using collocation on two servers, but by using collocation and when multiple restores were launched on different filesystems, TSM treats them as a classic restore and the restore becomes single-threaded. Rich ******************************************** This message is intended only for the use of the Addressee and may contain information that is PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately. Thank you. ********************************************