Networker

Re: [Networker] Gracefully stopping a backup to a particular drive

2007-11-21 10:17:49
Subject: Re: [Networker] Gracefully stopping a backup to a particular drive
From: Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PEEVRO.CO DOT UK>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:14:41 +0000
Peter Viertel wrote:
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...


That depends on how big your save sets are. If they are very large it may take until the end of the tape, but with smaller ones it will stop writing to a tape when a save set is completed.

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