> Indeed, what a mess..... > And don't forget the hundred of thousends ANR2841W messages we get > every day.
I don't get that many but still, we shouldn't get any. On Saturday I noticed my database backups had been failing. I don't have a clue yet as to why since I just got in to take a look. However what I did do was to halt the server at the time since nothing was happening and restarted it. I kicked off a dbbackup and it sat there for an hour waiting for tha mount of a scratch tape. q mo showed the mount reserved and I had lots of scratch tapes available. I decided to cancel the process, that took about a day and a half to accomplish. Yesterday's dbbackup was ok....go figure. This morning I also noted this for q sess f=d Sess Number: 2 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip Sess State: MediaW Wait Time: 9.4 H Bytes Sent: 337 Bytes Recvd: 612 Sess Type: Node Platform: WinNT Client Name: CP-ITS-IPVQA Media Access Status: Waiting for mount of output volume U00933 (33863 seconds). User Name: Date/Time First Data Sent: 10/28/01 22:09:59 Media wait going for 9.4 hours for what? The media is in the library and the status is ok: Sess Number: 2 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip Sess State: MediaW Wait Time: 9.4 H Bytes Sent: 337 Bytes Recvd: 612 Sess Type: Node Platform: WinNT Client Name: CP-ITS-IPVQA Media Access Status: Waiting for mount of output volume U00933 (33863 seconds). User Name: Date/Time First Data Sent: 10/28/01 22:09:59 Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614