It's even more annoying if you use caching.  I would like to know why it
won't remove cached files.

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Sanders, David wrote:

> Have a client that gets a failed backup of a file and I find this message in
> the Server log.
>   
>  ANR0534W                         © Copyright IBM Corp. 1993, 1997 
>                                           Topic lines 17 to 28 of 28 
> If pool name is a random access storage pool with caching enabled,   
> it is also possible that additional space can be made available in   
> this storage pool by eliminating cached files.  When the server      
> allocates space based on the size estimate provided by the client,   
> it frees space occupied by cached files if this space is needed to   
> obtain the estimated space.  However, if the server later            
> determines that the file size estimate was too low, it attempts to   
> obtain additional space that is not utilized, but does not delete    
> cached files to do so.  If you believe that pool name contains       
> additional space occupied by cached files, you can turn caching      
> off.  To free space that is already occupied by cached files, use    
> the MOVE DATA command for the volumes in pool name.                   
> 
> I do have cache on the disk storage pool.  I can understand all of the words
> above but can't figure out why this doesn't recover from the "wrong guess"
> and adjust and then "backup" the file successfully!
> 
> Comments?
> Dave Sanders
> Sr. Technical Consultant
> MassMutual / The Blue Chip Company
> 1295 State St, E060, Springfield, MA 01111
> 413-744-5095
>