In regard to: [Networker] Excluding devices from a backup?, George Sinclair...:

>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?

Not in my experience.  This might have changed in 6.x, but when I used the
"device restrictions" for certain pools with 5.x, it was both a write and
a read restriction, which means that only the devices you specified could
be used to do recoveries.

Why don't you just make all the devices in the library read only?

Tim
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