Use the Volume Recovery utility to recover objects that reside on an unusable optical or tape volume. It does not recover objects to the disk level. The utility only retrieves copies of the objects that are stored on disk to recover them to optical or tape volumes when recovering an Object Backup volume.

You can use the Volume Recovery utility to recover objects from tape sublevel 1 source volumes to tape sublevel 1 target volumes, or recover objects from tape sublevel 2 source volumes to tape sublevel 2 target volumes.

Typically, some of the objects are recovered to the Object or Object Backup storage group volume that is currently being written, and the rest of the objects are recovered to the next assigned Object or Object Backup storage group volume. If there are two backup copies of the object, you can indicate which copy of the object (first or second backup copy) is used in the recovery by indicating BACKUP1 or BACKUP2 on the RECOVERY command.

For more information on the Volume Recovery utility, see Recovering an entire optical cartridge or tape volume.