Hi Lindsay and Richard!
I have seen the exact same thing here!
The day before yesterday a user called me about an Oracle database restore
that was taking quite some time. I did a q sess and saw that it was in a
MediaW state. I have two tape units and TSM was reclaiming a tape. I was
also expecting to see the preempting message, but the reclaim was not
canceled by TSM. As soon as I did a CANCEL PROC the reclaim stopped, the
tapes were dismounted, the clients tape was mounted and the client restore
continued.
Yesterday we did the exact same thing and the running reclaim WAS cancel by
a preemption!
So prioritizing works.... Sometimes...
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines