Richard,

That would make sense, if the job was "freezing" in the middle of the
copies, but apparently, it just waits a while before starting to write
the first bit of data to tape, and then goes fine till the end !
Thanks anyway ;-)

Arnaud

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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Sims [mailto:rbs AT BU DOT EDU] 
Sent: Monday, 31 March, 2003 18:46
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Copy job "freezed"


>Could anybody explain me why I consistently see "backup stg" jobs 
>"freezing" ? What happens is that the job begins, but thereafter hangs 
>for a while, doing nothing at all, and suddenly starts copying data on 
>tape.  ...

A common cause is tape defects or un-cleaned drives which make for
time-consuming retries in reading the input tape or writing the output
tape.

  Richard Sims, BU