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- Organization: CUNY/UCC VM Systems
- Date: Tuesday, 5 Jan 1993 09:46:45 EST
- From: Robert Chambers <RMCCU@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <93005.094645RMCCU@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.l-vmctr
- Subject: AUTOCAT times
- Lines: 30
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- I'd like to get an idea of how long people's condense&discard processing
- takes each night.
-
- We run a minidisk-only shop here since SFS isn't fully supported under our
- current security scheme yet.
-
- Just for grins we added a bunch of users (14,000) to a shared file system
- and put some junk in some directories. I tried a backup of the whole
- thing and it got done pretty fast. To make sure the tapes weren't tied
- up for a while I set a 1 day retention period for them.
-
- At 12:30am the next morning I get a phone call from our operations because
- the job they submitted right after midnight hadn't started yet. I took
- a look and at 1:00am VMB was STILL doing its AUTOCAT processing.
-
- I END (FORCEd vmb and restarted it and the job took off without doing a
- condense and discard- The next night the same thing happened so I said to
- let it run until 2am, if it hasn't started by then, end force it and
- autolog it again.
-
- The next night (there were 3 days worth of condenses built up) we didn't
- run backups (weekend) so the autocat went through and took until around
- 2:30 to finish.
-
- Has anyone else had major problems with autocat taking so long? I have
- a call in to SCI but nothing yet.
-
- This is with VMBACKUP 5.3C
-
- Robert
-