Thanks Alex,

Both ideas that I have thought of.  However, I was under the impression that
once the reclamation had started, changing the threshold would not effect
the process already in motion.  As for turning off the drive.  A) I don't
particularly like that as a solution, and B) Our library is in a remote
lights out site.  Getting someone to physically turn it off would probably
take longer than waiting for the process to complete.

Thank you for your suggestions

JT

From: Alex Paschal <AlexPaschal AT FREIGHTLINER DOT COM>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Canceling a Reclamation FAST
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:49:56 -0800

Make sure your stgpool reclamation level is set high, then issue the cancel
process.  Then, here's the fun part, go over to your library and turn off
or
IPL the INPUT drive.  Your process will fail out with a read error and
you'll be good to go.

I probably wouldn't do this in production without testing if you're using
SCSI drives, I don't know how the bus would handle redetecting the drive,
but it works great in my Fibre Channel environment.  Since I don't know how
your environment's set up, use at your own risk.

Alex Paschal
Freightliner, LLC
(503) 745-6850 phone/vmail

-----Original Message-----
From: James Taylor [mailto:jimtsm AT HOTMAIL DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:54 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Canceling a Reclamation FAST


When I cancel a process that is using multiple drives, like a 'move data'
or
'reclamation', the process does not end until the file that it is working
on
has completed its move from source to destination tape.  If I have an
emergency restore that is stalled because it requires a drive and all the
drives are tied up with processes that are in 'cancel pending' state, is
there quick way of killing the processes that are using the drives without
stopping the TSM server?

Thanks

JT
AquatiCare Unlimited





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