Mark:

Make that storage unit for the dead library DEMAND ONLY.

It will only use it then if one of the policies SPECIFICALLY has it configured 
in its class attributes.

HTH
David

Quoting "Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com>:

> So - I've got this dead library.
> 
> I'm trying to get some backups written to a tape drive that I've gotten
> connected to NB just to move some stuff from the disk I've been buffering
> backups to.  I'm running out of disk space and I've got to get some stuff
> off to tape somehow.  I'm running the tape drive in AVR mode.
> 
> When I do a backup job, it's requesting a tape in the dead library to be
> mounted rather than grabbing the scratch tape I've got stuffed in the
> stand-alone drive.  How do I get the job to backup to this specific drive
> (the other library drives are DOWN).
> 
> Ideas?
>