Your "if it can" is my point. It's NOT copying data anymore, it is continuously reporting tape read errors, and it won't quit. The resulting output file will NOT be usable, and a process that normally takes an hour stretches into seven, eight, nine hours because of failed retries on a dirty drive.
I want a clean process termination, and so far the developers haven't been able to figure this out - so I can either stop TSM or kill TSM to get the process to go away. I don't understand how the devolpers can put code together to handle incomplete processes at shutdown or termination but can't figure out how to use the same recovery for a forced process termination. Tom -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Coles Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:18 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Question for the TSM 6.1 beta testers Well, actually it does "work". A "command" in TSM at the admin console is more of a "suggestion" with TSM. When you request a cancel of a process it wants to finish what it's doing if it can so as not to have a partially processed file. Killing out a process in the middle of a file transfer messes up the tape by creating fragmented space. Not only that, but I wouldn't get that worked up over a tape drive claiming to need cleaning. Unless you start seeing tape errors, you're not going to suffer from that nearly as much as you are going to suffer by killing TSM in the middle of a process. See Ya' Howard > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf > Of Kauffman, Tom > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:07 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] Question for the TSM 6.1 beta testers > > If you're allowed to answer it. > > With the new database design and the new architecture, is it possible > to terminate a process before it finishes the file it is processing? > > Explicityly, can I kill a reclaim or storage pool backup immediately, > without waiting for the current file to be finished. This comes up ont > or two times a month, where a tape drive indicates it needs cleaning - > and I've only got another 200 GB to process on the current file. The > current workaround is to shut TSM down. I'd rather kill the process, > but it doesn't work currently. > > Thanks - CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.
