Did you check the setting of the maxscratch on the tapepool, and then
check to see how many tapes are in use? 

Ben 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Robin Sharpe
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:04 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: ANS1329S (RC29) Server out of data storage space..... But not
really!

Has anyone encountered the subject message?

We saw it today in a Oracle RMAN backup...  what I think happened is, at
the time the backup script started, there was not enough space in the
ORACLE_DISK pool, nor in the ORACLE_LTO2 pool which is next in the
heirarchy.  Other sessions of the same job were still working, and we
added scratches and ran a migration while this backup job was still
running.  The script terminated much later, I think when the other
sessions finished...
but why couldn't it recover and use the newly available disk space or
scratch tapes?

There isn't a whole lot of detail in the TDP manual about how server
space gets reserved and allocated...  but it seems from experience that
TDP looks for enough space to hold the entire full backup.  Can anyone
confirm this?

TIA

Robin Sharpe
Berlex Labs