Ian, with todays tsm each tape would be mounted sequentially. With tomorrows tsm each tape could be mounted in parallel if you have enough drives. This is a feature in tsm 5.1, due out very soon, on 4/9/02 is what I have heard.
At 04:33 PM 3/20/2002 +0000, you wrote: >hi > >Does anybody know the answer to this: > >If you perform a full restore for a very large tsm client and that clients >data spans several tape media (say 4 volumes, even with collocation on) >would tsm try and mount all 4 volumes to 4 tape drives and then run the >restore or would it call the 4 volumes sequentially to 1 tape drive as and >when >until the restore is complete? > >I'm doing a DR exercise and am trying to workout how many simultaneous >client restores I could do with 4 tape drives. > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks ---------- Bill Colwell C. S. Draper Lab Cambridge Ma.
