Hello,

I usually start a Q CONTENT on the volume name of the mounted tapes. Listing
the first 20 files will give you an idea of the client which have been
backed up or migrated (pool full) to the tape.

Regards,

René Lambelet
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [SMTP:GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 5:02 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Tape Mounts and Disk Pools
> 
> Last night I'm watching backups because we're doing a test on a computer
> running SAP, that will be backing up 150GB+ data. At the same time I have
> about 25 other nodes starting when I notice tape mounts. I see that mounts
> of Archive tapes are going and I'm wondering why.
> 
> Question: Can I tell if a mount request happens what node is requesting
> it?
> 
> I've checked my disk storage pools and none point directly to the archive
> tape pool except the archive disk pool. I have no archives going at this
> time so I'm still wondering why I've got 2 mounts for archive tapes in
> use.
> I'm wondering if the SAP test is somehow doing this. unfortunately the guy
> running it is doing it from his end so I can't see what's happening. I
> don't
> know why I couldn't run this from the scheduler. I'm not familiar with the
> SAP agent so someone might be able to help me out. Or better yet if you
> have
> a script you use that kicks off from the node side maybe you can send it
> to
> me so I can show it to our SAP folks. Maybe they are doing something odd.
> 
> These are the 2 sessions running;
> 31,663 Tcp/Ip MediaW 2.8 M    7.2 K  13.7 G Node  OSF/1    CPAB
> 
> 31,664 Tcp/Ip RecvW    0 S    7.1 K  13.2 G Node  OSF/1    CPAB
> 
> Not sure why it specifies OSF/1 when it's a DECUNIX box???
> 
> One does have a media wait and I don't know why since I have a file size
> limit of 3g on the disk pools. I was told by the SAP folks the files they
> would be sending were all 2gb or less. The SAP disk pools are not filling.
> I
> wonder if I have to have a specific name for them instead of what I
> decided
> to use???
> 
> > Geoff Gill
> > NT Systems Support Engineer
> > Computer Systems Group
> > E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
> > Phone:  (858) 826-4062
> > Pager:   (888) 997-9614
> >