Thanks Richard,

I checked the Activity long and things have been ok the past two days with 
regards to the mount times. We still have a issue where the "export suspend 
command" causes the destination TSM Server to "hang". Still not sure why this 
happens 

Regards!

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Richard Sims
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 8:35 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU"
Subject: Re: EXPORTING clients

On Jul 8, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Hughes, Timothy wrote:

> Yes, We are doing Server-to-tape exports. I did notice a couple times long 
> input tape mounts on the destination TSM SERVER one was around 6,000 seconds 
> another around 14,000 seconds and another 17,000 seconds.

Export/Import operations are, per the Admin Guide manual topic "Preemption of 
client or server operations", high priority, which would pre-empt lower 
priority operations in order to get a tape mount started.  If prompt allocation 
of tape drives is being reflected in your Activity Log, but then tape mount and 
positioning is taking an inordinate amount of time, that would suggest hardware 
issues with tapes or drives. If non-Export operations do not exhibit such 
delays, then something else is going on, where analysis of the Activity Log and 
operating system logs may reveal factors.  If no cause is evident, contacting 
TSM Support would be in order.

    Richard Sims