[Veritas-bu] Keeping jobs in the queue from becoming active

Sorry for MY delay, which is much longer than yours!

What happens when you kill bprd and there are queued jobs?  Rob says that 
it won't kill active jobs, but what about queued jobs?

At 09:18 AM 12/19/00 +0200, Miriam Ben-Haim wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am sorry about the delay - I don't always find the time to read the
>mails of this list.
>
>The way I delt with this same issue was by stopping the bprd daemon - I
>do it via the GUI (Terminate Request Daemon) and restarting it when I'm
>done with whatever maintenance I did.
>
>On Wed, 1 Nov 2000 John_Wang AT enron DOT net wrote:
>
> >Hello
> >
> >I didn't get any replies last time I asked this so I thought I might 
> rephrase
> >it.   I'd like to be able to cause jobs to not become active but still be
> >queued.   The idea being that I can put a hold while I do some 
> maintenance or
> >wait for whatever is still active to finish so that I can then do some
> >maintenance and still have everything in the queue ready to run when I 
> turn it
> >back over to production.
> >
> >So far, the only thing I can think of is to deactivate all the pertinent 
> classes
> >and reactivate them after I'm done with maintenance but I don't know if that
> >will keep user directed backups in the queue.
> >
> >This is important because we've already had situations where during 
> maintenance,
> >people have took it upon themselves to rearrange the tapes in the 
> library for
> >esthetics sake.   Although the tape library does rescan the barcodes 
> when the
> >door is closed, the Netbackup media database is not automatically 
> synchronized
> >with the tape library's own database.   If new tapes have been added in 
> slots
> >where Netbackup thinks another tape should be, the new tape will get the 
> wrong
> >label and some images intended for another tape before the databases are
> >synchronized resulting in a frozen tape after the next synchronization.
> >Although this tends to happen when I'm out of town, I'd like to be able to
> >insist on a procedure that prevents jobs from being active till the 
> databases
> >are synchronized.
> >
> >Regards,
> >John I Wang
> >Sr. Systems Engineer
> >Steverson Information Professionals
> >
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>
>         Miriam
>
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