increase your disk pool, thats the best solution

-----Original Message-----
From: Brazner, Bob [mailto:Bob.Brazner AT JCI DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:50 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Client backups in MediaW state


We often run into this situation: Client backups normally go to the disk
storage pool, but if it fills up, they start going directly to tape.  We
have many more clients than tape drives, so we eventually have a number of
clients in MediaW state.  Eventually, migration frees up a good portion of
the disk storage pool, but we don't see the clients in MediaW state
becoming aware of this.  Instead, they just sit in MediaW state waiting in
line for a tape to become available.  Is there a sure-fire way to cause all
the client sessions (or a given client session) in MediaW state to
immediately revert to using the disk storage pool again?   If the answer is
no, is there a way to raise the priority of a given client session in
MediaW state so that it gets the next tape that becomes available?

Bob Brazner
Johnson Controls, Inc.
(414) 524-2570