Environment:Tsm server RS6000 S80
AIX 4.3.3.15
TSM 3.7.3.1
Tape library: 3494 with 3590E drives
Doing a backup of the onsite primary tapepool (collocated) to the offsite
copy tapepool (non-collocated).
Job ran fine for several hours and used many scratch tapes.
Then suddenly!!!!!!
Got the following error:
12/25/00 03:34:53 ANR8337I 3590 volume NT1941 mounted in drive RMT2
(/dev/rmt2).
12/25/00 03:34:53 ANR1340I Scratch volume NT1941 is now defined in
storage
pool COPYPOOL.
12/25/00 03:34:56 ANR8302E I/O error on drive RMT2 (/dev/rmt2)
(OP=WRITE,
CC=0, KEY=03, ASC=85, ASCQ=00,
SENSE=F0.00.03.00.00.00.50.58.00.00.00.00.85.00.FE.0A.3A-
.5B.41.00.00.09.01.91.04.09.10.40.00.00.0A.00.00.33.3D.0-
0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.01.00.-
00.00.04.FF.00.00.00.00.03.00, Description=An
undetermined error has occurred). Refer to
Appendix B in
the 'Messages' manual for recommended action.
12/25/00 03:34:56 ANR8359E Media fault detected on 3590 volume NT1941
in
drive RMT2 (/dev/rmt2) of library 3494LIB.
12/25/00 03:34:56 ANR1411W Access mode for volume NT1941 now set to
"read-only" due to write error.
12/25/00 03:35:02 ANR1341I Scratch volume NT1941 has been deleted
from
storage pool COPYPOOL.
This sequence of messages repeated four times, same tape volume, different
tape drives. Then the job blew off:
12/25/00 03:58:46 ANR1219E BACKUP STGPOOL: Process 84 terminated -
excessive
write errors encountered.
12/25/00 03:58:46 ANR0986I Process 84 for BACKUP STORAGE POOL running
in the
BACKGROUND processed 909188 items for a total of
144,400,306,523 bytes with a completion state of
FAILURE
at 03:58:46.
NT1941 is the only scratch tape this process tried to mount after receiving
the first error..
Is there a way to get TSM or the 3494 library manager to select a different
scratch tape in the event of repeated failures????
Thanks in advance for any help, ideas, or suggestions.
Frank,
Frank McClean
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
