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The way I look at it is this: your backup stalled, so far with no explanation. You have lots of space and this is not a new job, it has worked before, as recently as last Friday.
One hypothesis is that something burped in your I/O and caused the backup to stall. It could have been a burp on ldev 3, or any of the other disk drives from where it was reading. A request was missed or something and the backup went into an eternal wait, for something that would never come. This could be a portent for a disk or controller problem, or bad cable or SCSI terminator.
The stall was cleared when you rebooted and of course, the backup flags for the various flags were no longer valid after the reboot so you can now access the files and databases.
Maybe it only occurs under load, like in a backup. Who knows?
I would suggest that if this occurs again you take a dump of the system so that you can get information about what was going on when it stalled.
Here's hoping it does not occur again.
Denys
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On Mon, December 23, 2019 11:53, Keven Miller\(3k\) wrote:
> You said STD. The thought came to mind, of how big does it get?
> What OS version?
> I have no answers, but wondered if hitting some size limit.
> Keven Miller
>
None of the databases have been expanded recently. We are running at about 80$ available (20% utilisation) on all three discs. The S-T-D files use the HFS. The last complete S-T-D was Friday night:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 OPERATOR.BACKUPS BACKUPS 681870592 Dec 20 02:29
STDHAL.1.1
-rw-rw-rw- 1 OPERATOR.BACKUPS BACKUPS 555692800 Dec 20 02:22
STDHAL.2.1
-rw-rw-rw- 1 OPERATOR.BACKUPS BACKUPS 680623104 Dec 20 02:24
STDHAL.3.1
-rw-rw-rw- 1 OPERATOR.BACKUPS BACKUPS 695923968 Dec 20 02:24
STDHAL.4.1
The BACKUPS account is on its own volume set:
:dstat all
LDEV-TYPE STATUS VOLUME VOLUME SET - GEN
---------- ------- ----------------------------------
1-ST318417N MASTER MEMBER1
MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET-0
2-ST318417N MASTER MEMBER1 HAL_DATA-0
3-ST318417N MASTER MEMBER1 HAL_BKUP-0
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