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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