Hi Lindsay and Richard!
I have seen the exact same thing here!
The day before yesterday a user called me about an Oracle database restore
that was taking quite some time. I did a q sess and saw that it was in a
MediaW state. I have two tape units and TSM was reclaiming a tape. I was
also expecting to see the preempting message, but the reclaim was not
canceled by TSM. As soon as I did a CANCEL PROC the reclaim stopped, the
tapes were dismounted, the clients tape was mounted and the client restore
continued.
Yesterday we did the exact same thing and the running reclaim WAS cancel by
a preemption!
So prioritizing works.... Sometimes...
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 21:48
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reclaims Ques
>How long does it usually take for the reclamation process to actually stop,
>and release the tape drive(s) so the restore can use them? I've typically
>seen this be 40 minutes or more, but I'm not sure why, or if something
>could be done to speed it up.
Lindsay - The first thing I would check is whether you have NOPREEMPT in
your server options file. Reclamation of onsite volumes itself
takes a long time, but at least looks at the Reclamation Threshold between
volumes: offsite volume reclamation never looks back, just continuing to
process all the volumes it saw that it had to do when it started.
If you don't have NOPREEMPT in force, there may be something else at play.
Do queries in a future situation and see if an explicit Cancel Process
will stop reclamation.
Richard Sims, BU
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