I've gotten into a similar state. Sometimes if you wait a really really
long time (1+ day) the active restore will time out. Sometimes we have to
cycle the TSM server to clear it out.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 01:02:10PM -0400, Zoltan Forray wrote:
> TSM Linux server - 6.3.4.200 - client is Linux/Centos 7.1.0.1
>
> Is there a way to "terminate with extreme prejudice" a hung restore.
>
> 12:58:21 PM   PROCESSOR : q restore
>   Sess Restore     Elapsed Node Name                 Filespace         FSID
> Number State       Minutes                           Name
> ------ ----------- ------- ------------------------- ----------- ----------
>  1,067 Active        8,753 GODEL.VCU.EDU             /data7              12
>     -1 Restartable   1,361 GODEL.VCU.EDU             /data7              12
>
>
> I have tried numerous times to "cancel restore 1067" to no avail.
>
> They users started the restore as another session and finished restoring
> and want to start backing up but now it won't backup due to the hung
> restore.
>
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