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Cris Robinson
Senior Technical Analyst
Desktop Services Technical Support
Liberty Mutual Insurance
603.431.8400.54837
cris.robinson AT libertymutual DOT com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kauffman, Tom [SMTP:KauffmanT AT NIBCO DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 1998 8:42 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Ugly experience
>
> I've just come in today and find I've had an ugly experience last
> night. I
> had my "breead & butter" SAP on-line backup (an ADSM archive process)
> fail
> -- because one of its four concurrent sessions was repeatedly prempted
> by
> ADSM 'for a higher priority process' to frre up a tape drive.
>
> I now have 220 GB of worthless data (out of 222 GB of database). To my
> management's eyes, there is NO higher priority process than this
> backup --
> unless it is the restore from this backup. I have six tape units; four
> were
> being used for the backup, one was in use for a restore (which was
> expendable, and ended up failing for similar reasons) and one tape
> drive
> failed during the night. How can I adjust these priorities?
> Especially, is
> there any way to set a priority from the client side? This backup is
> started
> by cron launching brbackup on the client.
>
> TIA
>
> Tom Kauffman
> Sr. Technical Analyst
> NIBCO, Inc