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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Arnaud Brion, Panalpina Management Ltd., IT Group | | Viaduktstrasse 42, P.O. Box, 4002 Basel - Switzerland | | Phone: +41 61 226 19 78 / Fax: +41 61 226 17 01 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -----Original Message----- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 31 March, 2003 18:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
