active backup jobs would NOT be affected by the stopping of bprd.
(but if they fail, they will not get rerun unless bprd is running)
I am not sure about queued jobs, though.
HTH
rob
At 1:43 PM -0500 12/19/00, Dennis Dwyer wrote:
>What happens to backup jobs that may be running when you terminate the request
>daemon? I have a situation coming up where at a certain point I may not want
>any new jobs to start but I want those that are running to finish. I suspect
>that I should be able to use this technique as well but I thought I'd check.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Dennis F. Dwyer
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>>>> Miriam Ben-Haim <miriam AT techunix.technion.ac DOT il> 12/19/00 02:18AM
>>>> >>>
>
>Hi,
>
>I am sorry about the delay - I don't always find the time to read the
>mails of this list.
>
>The way I delt with this same issue was by stopping the bprd daemon - I
>do it via the GUI (Terminate Request Daemon) and restarting it when I'm
>done with whatever maintenance I did.
>
>On Wed, 1 Nov 2000 John_Wang AT enron DOT net wrote:
>
>>Hello
>>
>>I didn't get any replies last time I asked this so I thought I might rephrase
>>it. I'd like to be able to cause jobs to not become active but still be
>>queued. The idea being that I can put a hold while I do some maintenance or
>>wait for whatever is still active to finish so that I can then do some
>>maintenance and still have everything in the queue ready to run when I turn it
>>back over to production.
>>
>>So far, the only thing I can think of is to deactivate all the pertinent
>>classes
>>and reactivate them after I'm done with maintenance but I don't know if that
>>will keep user directed backups in the queue.
>>
>>This is important because we've already had situations where during
>>maintenance,
>>people have took it upon themselves to rearrange the tapes in the library for
>>esthetics sake. Although the tape library does rescan the barcodes when the
>>door is closed, the Netbackup media database is not automatically synchronized
>>with the tape library's own database. If new tapes have been added in slots
>>where Netbackup thinks another tape should be, the new tape will get the wrong
>>label and some images intended for another tape before the databases are
>>synchronized resulting in a frozen tape after the next synchronization.
>>Although this tends to happen when I'm out of town, I'd like to be able to
>>insist on a procedure that prevents jobs from being active till the databases
>>are synchronized.
>>
>>Regards,
>>John I Wang
>>Sr. Systems Engineer
>>Steverson Information Professionals
>>
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