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Re: [Networker] Gracefully stopping a backup to a particular drive

2007-11-19 15:26:08
Subject: Re: [Networker] Gracefully stopping a backup to a particular drive
From: "Landwehr, Jerome" <jlandweh AT HARRIS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:23:37 -0500
I'm guessing 'nsr admin' is new to NetWorker

but to answer the question, no, you cannot, here's hoping someday maybe!
  

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of nsr admin
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 11:39 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Gracefully stopping a backup to a particular drive


I have several long running backups that run against a dedicated tape
library.    Every so often one of the drives in the library starts
writing data at a very slow rate.   I've found that this usually ends
up being an issue with the tape drive and power cycling or replacing
the drive fixes it.   While this condition is rare, when it does
happen, I have to kill these long running backups to get Networker to
stop writing to the device so I can place it in service mode / disable
it for repair.

I was wondering if there is any way to force Networker to gracefully
stop writing to a particular device so it will move the savesets to a
different drive and continue where they left off.


Thanks in advance.

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