Check your tape drives q drive and make sure they are available.
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Gail Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 11/13/2000 07:32:53 PM
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Subject: Re: File Restore, Needed Tape in Use
Thank you all for your response.
I looked around with q session for something using the tape. I only see
the
below session active where we are in MediaW. I also looked via q process,
q
request, q mount. I see nothing outstanding and the tape volume just shows
as Filling with q vol. I see nothing holding it other than TSM. The
tapepool is only used for the diskpool to migrate to it when it gets full.
If anyone else has any other suggestions I'd love to hear them.
Thanks
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Subject: Re: File Restore, Needed Tape in Use
> If you cannot find what is using your tape by entering the q session
> command you can try the q process command. There are other jobs that
> could be using the tape. If a process has your tape then just cancel the
> process.
>
> Linda Seeba Phone: (314) 234-5190
> I/T Specialist - Sr Fax: (314) 232-4581
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> "Davidson, Becky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 11/13/2000
12:23:19
> PM
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>
> Gail
> The tape is mounted and something else is writing to it? If you do a q
ses
> f=d does session 277 have the tape or is it waiting for it? If it is
> waiting for it then you need to cancel whatever is writing to the tape.
> You
> can find that out also from the q ses f=d. You can restore a file from a
> tape that is in the filling status but only if something else is not
> writing
> to it at the moment.
> Good Luck
> Becky Davidson
> Data Manager/AIX Administrator
> EDS/Earthgrains
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gail Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 12:09 PM
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>
>
> All,
>
> I am running a TSM 3.7.3 environment on AIX 4.3.3. I will try and
provide
> some background information.
>
> I am having trouble restoring a file (through an API). The needed file
is
> on tape, however the tape is mounted and its status is "Filling". At the
> moment there is minimal amount of data to none flowing out to the tape.
> There are no outstanding requests or processes showing. The mount
> retention is 60, while mount wait is 10 (which could be one problem).
When
> I look at the sessions I see the following which looks like it is in
media
> wait. There has not been a failed request back to the API. Also, the
> restore has been waiting for at least 15 hours! (We are patient here,
but
> not this patient)
>
> 277 ShMem MediaW 1.5 H 1.2 G 12.8 G Node
>
> Questions:
>
> 1- Can you restore a file from a tape that is in the filling status?
> 2- If so, is there something special we need to do to restore this file?
> 3- We want the restore to be automated without manual intervention.
> 4- Has anyone run into this before when not using an API? If so, what
did
> you have to do to address it?
>
> Any input is greatly appreciated.
> Regards,
> Gail
