I am not at the office now but I am sure that I have tried this before and I
get a response that the drive is in use and it can't be taken offline.

JT

From: Steve Harris <Steve_Harris AT HEALTH.QLD.GOV DOT AU>
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: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:45:56 +1000

updating the drive mid transaction to online=no does it for me.

AIX 4.3.3  & 5.1 TSM 4.2.3.3

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

>>> AlexPaschal AT FREIGHTLINER DOT COM 08/03/2003 1:49:56 >>>
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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