Hi,

Just comment out the jobs in jobs.conf and it will not do those backups. 
Make sure to either reload bacula or stop/restart bacula to make the
configuration changes stick.  Then just uncomment the jobs when yo are done
with what you need to do and restart bacula again.



iana wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm looking for a way to tell bacula to stop doing backups while I do some
> administative things like labeling tapes (or restoring). This problem has
> just bitten me but I don't know bacula well enough yet to work around it.
> 
> I have one tape which is in VolStatus=Append and I wanted to add another
> tape to the pool. I unmounted and ejected the tape then wrote an EOF
> marker
> on the new tape, started up bconsole and labeled it. As soon as I had
> finished this, a bacula job which had been scheduled started writing to
> the
> new tape. I wanted this backup on the first tape, what should I have done?
> Is there a way of holding backups in queue until tasks like labeling or
> restoring are finished?
> 
> I'm new to bacula so I might be thinking about this the wrong way, but I
> would appreceate any guidance.
> 
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> 
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