Backup from Primary Pool to Copy Pool

[piggy]

Hi, I met a problem when I tried to backup from promary pool to copy pool. After I submitted the following command, "backup stgpool dltpool1 tapecopy maxprocess=2", then I submitted the "query process". The output is the following:



TSM:ASDTEST_TSMSRV>

query process

ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY PROCESS



Process Process Description Status

Number

-------- -------------------- -----------------------------------------------

4 Backup Storage Pool Primary Pool DLTPOOL1, Copy Pool TAPECOPY, File

Backed Up: 0, Bytes Backed Up: 0, Unreadable

Files: 0, Unreadable Bytes: 0. Current Physica

File (bytes): 34,651,394

Waiting for mount of

input volume 000048 (3089 seconds).

Waiting for

mount of output volume 000046 (3089 seconds).



It seems that TSM waits for the mount to be completed. The following is the output of "query mount"

TSM:ASDTEST_TSMSRV>

query mount

ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY MOUNT

ANR8379I Mount point in device class DLTCLASS1 is waiting for the volume mount

to complete, status: WAITING FOR VOLUME.

ANR8379I Mount point in device class DLTCLASS1 is waiting for the volume mount

to complete, status: WAITING FOR VOLUME.

ANR8334I 2 matches found.



Does anyone have any idea or experience about this? Thanks



Michael

 

[pstephen]

I have seen very similar messages many times. There are many reasons that this could be happening. I assume you have a DLT tape Library with at least two DLT Drives. From these messages all I can tell is that TSM is waiting for your Library to mount Tape Volumes 000046 and 000048 in the Drives. Once these tapes are mounted it will complete the Backup Storage pool.



Have you done a "Query Volume 000046 format=detail" and "Query Volume 0000468 format=detail" to find out what the status and state of these volumes are? For some reason these tapes are not able to be mounted. Perhaps the tapes are checked out of the Library? Perhaps some other process is using the drives?



Hope this helps.