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Re: [Networker] Excluding devices from a backup?

2002-10-08 10:48:50
Subject: Re: [Networker] Excluding devices from a backup?
From: Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:30:55 -0400
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, George Sinclair wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to be able to exclude a library from backups but not preclude
> users from being able to use its devices to recover data. As a result, I
> can't very well just disable the affected drives. I'm thinking I could
> remove (unselect) the devices under the affected pool, but if I do this,
> will folks still be able to recover data from a given client wherein the
> required tape is in the library that has the device that was unselected
> from the pool window?

All you have to do is go to the nwadmin gui, pull down the media menu,
select the device in question and put a check mark next to the "read only"
item.

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