| Title: | MAGNETIC TAPEDRIVES |
| Moderator: | STKHLM::GJOHNSSON |
| Created: | Mon Sep 21 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3775 |
| Total number of notes: | 13147 |
While doing a Backup to a tape the Backup utility mounts the tape (if
not yet mounted) and if the tape is not ready to mount for any reason
one get the message:
%MOUNT-I-OPRQST, Please mount volume XXXX in device _$1$MUA0: ('node_name')
... and if nobody correct the problem the Mounts hangs forever...
Is there a way to timeout the Mount operation (and abort it) if there
is no action within a given time to correct the problem ?
I tried to modify the SYSGEN parameter TAPE_MVTIMEOUT but no change
(i'm not surprised as it's not really the good parameter (if any) to
change).
Thanks in advance for any comment.
Jean-Pierre
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| 3698.1 | COOKIE::FROEHLIN | VMS...riding into the setting sun! | Wed Mar 19 1997 20:31 | 14 | |
> ... and if nobody correct the problem the Mounts hangs forever...
> Is there a way to timeout the Mount operation (and abort it) if there
> is no action within a given time to correct the problem ?
Hm, not sure what your customer has in mind. Assuming they have only
one tape device without a loader, why not have BACKUP waiting for
someone to mount the tape?
One solution is to start a 2nd batch job before the backup command. The
2nd job just checks that tape mounting progresses. If not take whatever
action necessary (e.g. run a small program which sends a $FORCEX to the
backup job to exit BACKUP and proceed).
Guenther
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