Interesting situation, David. I have not encountered any client controls for Restartable Restore (supported or otherwise): it is implicit, and always in effect (for NQR).
One way to address the issue is to reduce your server RESTOREINTERVAL value. This is the simplest solution. Another is for you or your AIX admin to render the restore interface command more sophisticated...to have the dsmc run as a child of a control process which intercepts Ctrl-C (SIGINT) to then cancel the restore (which is non-trivial, given the client interface to this task). On the server side, you might have a cron job check for lingering RRs before the backups window, to dispose of them. Richard Sims On May 4, 2006, at 9:26 AM, David Browne wrote:
My AIX admin has created a script for some of our users on our AIX clients to run a restore command. One of the users canceled the restore leaving a pending restartable restore. This caused the backup to fail last night. Is there a parm for the Unix client to say restartable restore=no?