The quick answer is "nope".

You could offline all the drives on that robot - that'd be a pretty
simple looping script.

You could also put both your physical & VTL drives in a storage unit
group with "failover" as the priority method and have the backup jobs
fail to the physical library automatically.  

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Steven
Stewart
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:54 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Easy ways to disable a tape robot

I'm just curious if there is a easy way in Netbackup to offline a
specific robot.
It would be preferable that jobs requesting that robot simply queue
until the robot
is brought back online but if the jobs just fail that's ok too.

Occasionally we have to perform code updates on our VTL but don't want
to
have to down Netbackup since we can redirect crucial backups to our
physical
library.

Background on the environment.

NBU 6.5.3.1

We currently back 99% of stuff to the VTL then use SLP to migrate the
images to
the physical robot.  We have 3 Storage Groups that all SLP's and regular
polices use.

Storage Groups:
Backups - used for all non database backups consists of 2 Virtual robots
across 3 media servers
Database - used for database backups consists of 1 Virtual robot across
3 media servers
SL8500 -  used for resting place for the SLP's and select Policies with
large amounts of data

Thanks for any feedback


Steven Stewart
NC State University
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