It's great to know what tapes are needed if you have to request them from a
remote location or go somewhere yourself to get them, but is it really worth
all this hassle just to avoid resubmitting a pending request in Device
Monitor or through the CLI?

Once the pending request is resubmitted, everything just goes on its merry
way like the tape was in there the whole time.


- Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Louis-Luc Le Guerrier [mailto:leguerri AT Canr.Hydro.Qc DOT Ca] 
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:51 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore: Putting required tapes w/o needing to redo
the restore

Hello,
I'm using NetBackup 5.0 on Solaris 9 with a robotic device.
When I do a restore procedure ('bpadm', then 'u', 'r', 'b'),
I select the files, and initiate the restore.
Then I quit the interface and look at the logfile, and if
it requests for a tape that is not in the robotic device, then
I mount it, update the MM database so it sees the new tape(s).
However, the active job seems locked and does not 
automatically pick the required tape even though it is in
the robot and the MM database is already updated.

Now I have to cancel that job, and go back in the interface 
to select the same files and initiate a new restore job.

Is there a better way to do this? Either being able to
suspend the job and resume it when the tapes are ready, 
or restarting the same job once tapes are ready, or making
the job automatically detect the required tapes when they 
become available?

Thanks for any information.

Louis-Luc

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