> Is there any way to mark a tape temporarily in such a way that
> Duplication would not select it but it would still be available when
> restore did? [...]
> While suspending the
> tapes prevents them from being used by backups on the original host it
> does not prevent the duplication job from selecting the tapes 
> to mount.

Suspend and freeze are designed to prevent writing to tapes, not reading
from them.

> We do eventually want the duplication but want to defer it until the
> restore is done so need a method similar to suspending a tape that

Your scheduling design does not fit your scheduling needs.  If
duplication should give the restores X hours or days before it
duplicates, change the lookback window in the vault profile (or whatever
you're using in place of vault) for those tapes so that it waits that
long before selecting their images for duplication.


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