And, I've seen this happen when your mount limit is set to something other than "DRIVES". Like when you have your device class set to 2 as a mount limit, TSM will "reserve" the other 2 to prevent an admin process from using them.
See Ya' Howard > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Remco Post > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Cant change the status of a Mount Point > > On 28 apr 2009, at 11:26, admbackup wrote: > > > I am having a problem with two mount points in a tsm server. > > > > The tsm server is connected to a tape library of 4 drivers. When I > > input query mount there are always two moint points in RESERVED > > status: > > > > ANR8376I Mount point reserved in device class LTODEV, status: > > RESERVED. > > > > ANR8376I Mount point reserved in device class LTODEV, status: > > RESERVED. > > > > this means that a process has reserved the drive... q pr should be > your friend. If all else fails, try the windows solution and restart > TSM.... > > > The problem is that there are only 4 drivers, but 2 of them are > > unable to be used because of this situation. Most of the backup > > sessions stay in "Waiting for mount point" for long time. I have > > tried by restarting the Storage Agent service of all the client > > servers but the situation remains the same. > > > > I have checked the activity log, but there is nothing strange. It > > is not a hardware problem because the 2 drivers that become unable > > for this problem are not always the same > > > > + > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. > > |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. > > + > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > -- > Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards, > > Remco Post > [email protected]
