-- Warm regards, Michael Green
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Francisco Molero <fmol...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > 2.- When TSM restores files from these tapes. Does it restore all files in > a sequential way ?. I mean TSM is reading the tape from the beginning and if > it finds files to belong to this TSM Client from different directories it > restores independently of the directory which this files belong or TSM > server prepares a list of file and it is looking one per one in the tape... > or Which is the procedure ? > In terms of restore order TSM uses opportunistic approach. It doesn't tries to restore in alphabetical order for example. The restore thread will read all the relevant files from a particular tape regardless of their alphabetical order or backup dates. Then move to next tape. The goal is to minimize the amount of tape mounts.
