Hi, I don't post much to this list but I have been following for about a year or so now. I know this has been discussed before but I have looked through the archives and found nothing that would explain the length of time it has taken so far to restore 8.2 G of data files which are all on the small side, approximately 16K per file. I know that this is 512,948 files, but it has been running for 48 hours now and has only restored 1G of data. Now here a some of the specifics of the set up here.
TSM server: IBM B50 running AIX 4.3.3.9 TSM Server Version 4, Release 1, Level 4.0 LIB 3581 with 1 drive TSM Client: IBM B50 running AIX 4.3.3.9 TSM Version 4, Release 2, Level 0.0 What we are doing may be strange, but here it is. We have the tapes from our production nfs server. Which were backed up on the following backup set up: TSM server: IBM B80 running AIX 4.3.3.9 TSM Server Version 4, Release 1, Level 4.0 LIB IBM 3583 with 3 drives TSM Client: IBM B50 running AIX 4.3.3.9 TSM Version 4, Release 2, Level 0.0 We went through the disaster recovery procedure using the RECOVERY.SCRIPT.DISASTER.RECOVERY.MODE that was created the drm. We then loaded all the tape we could in the 3581, 7 in at a time, and started a restore the /export/home disk using the following commands: dsmc -virtualnodename=spock tsm> restore /export/home/ec01/ITSF_FILE_ROOT/* -sub=y -replace=y -ifnewer I have had to restart this restore twice due to it dieing. I have been running dsmadmc -CONSOLE on the server and see no errors when restore stops on the client. Nor are there any error in the activity logs. Sorry for going on so long but I figure you might need all this info, than again maybe not:). Thanks to all Aaron Hicks Unix Administrator Dynec Campbell, CA.