Putting the drive into service mode will eventually achieve this when
the tape in it becomes full.

Probably not much help if your drive is running slowly, but it's better
than nothing...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of nsr admin
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2007 3:39 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Gracefully stopping a backup to a 
> particular drive
> 
> I have several long running backups that run against a dedicated tape
> library.    Every so often one of the drives in the library starts
> writing data at a very slow rate.   I've found that this usually ends
> up being an issue with the tape drive and power cycling or replacing
> the drive fixes it.   While this condition is rare, when it does
> happen, I have to kill these long running backups to get Networker to
> stop writing to the device so I can place it in service mode / disable
> it for repair.
> 
> I was wondering if there is any way to force Networker to gracefully
> stop writing to a particular device so it will move the savesets to a
> different drive and continue where they left off.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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