Gill,

Is it possible that reclamation has kicked off and you specified the archive
tape pool as reclamation storage pool.  Just a thought.

Arturo

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Gill, Geoffrey L. [SMTP:GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM]
        Sent:   Tuesday, September 19, 2000 10:02 PM
        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
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