[Info-vax] inconsistent information about HBVS status

[Dave]

On Feb 4, 6:02 pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
undress to reply) wrote:
> In article
> <26eb18e0-e687-48a8-abe8-231c8684e... at d2g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, Ken
>
> Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> writes:
> > I do recall that SHOW SHADOW and SHOW DEVICE  will
> > give different values for % copied or %merged.  I figure it's
> > just different code for the two utilities.
>
> Yes, but one would think they would agree more.
>
> > The other point is, if you*really* want to know if a copy or
> > merge has started (or completed), look in the operator.log
> > for the messages from the shadow server.  I don't have a
> > system I can check at the moment, so I can't give the
> > exact facility used in the OPCOM message, but they're
> > obvious if you look. :-)
>
> Right, that's why I was sure the copy hadn't actually started.

The "show shadow" clearly states "copy pending", i.e. not started so
amount copied is definitely 0%.    Is it possible that the 1%
indicates that some preparations have been done by the system, ready
to start the copy, but it is now waiting for an available slot
(controlled by SHADOW_MAX_COPIES).

Dave