Thanks to all. The recommendation of simply making the affected drives
read-only is the winner. This was everyone's recommendation. Apparently,
I've been living in a cave for too long (LOL!).

Tim Mooney wrote:
>
> 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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