How to terminate job if no writeable media present

You can setup automatic cancellation of the job - it's on the schedule tab - make sure you don't set it for a small amount though.

Yes John.
I know what you are on about, but the reason why I have not used this option is because my question is only if there is no media in the tape drive for it to cancel the job rather than stopping after so many hours of writing (cancellation).

The tapes are scheduled to backup everyday Monday to Friday.

So is it possible for it not to start if it reads no media the tape drive?

Hello,

1. When Backup Exec detects no media that it can use for a backup job it fires an alert which says: 'insert overwritable media by using the import command'. The job remains unresponsive till the alert is not responded to.

2. To avoid this we can configure Backup exec to respond automatically to alerts. Especially the media alerts. Please refer to the following technote for that:


Title : How to configure Backup Exec 9.x and 10.x for Windows Servers to respond to alerts automatically
http://support.veritas.com/docs/254685

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Thank you for you answer...

The other option would be to use the 'exclude dates' in the schedule\edit schedule details option.

I have read your answer thoroughly and I am still very much a novice on the Vertias Backup Exec.

In the document 'http://support.veritas.com/docs/254685 ' you have advised me 2 options I can try Phase 1 and Phase 2.

In ‘Figure 3’ of this document is it possible for me to select 'Media Remove' after so many hours'. Would this eject the tape if the job had not started after so many hours?

due to it being a bank holiday.. and the system not being used by anyone in the company... it then does not require a backup say for example on Sunday and Monday, until all the staff are back in on Tuesday for it to be backed up.

What your option is saying is that an alert would tell it to overwrite media..if I tell it a time to respond to the alert?

but should I use the option 'Media Remove' instead?
or
should i set 'an alert will be triggered after the set time is reached?'

see now that you have given me more options I am confused in what to do, especially when i am the only technician/administrator in the company.

Hello,

If i have understood correctly you do not want to run your backup job on the weekend so as you have suggested you can exclude the specific dates on which you do not want the backup job to run, please see the technote below:

http://support.veritas.com/docs/268666


Thanks,

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See http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/192055.htm
and coinfigure it to cancel the job rather than just clear the alert

Hello,



To quote you :


"due to it being a bank holiday.. and the system not being used by anyone in the company... it then does not require a backup say for example on Sunday and Monday, until all the staff are back in on Tuesday for it to be backed up."


Which means that you do not want these jobs to be running in fact for which we have given you the option to exclude these dates in the job schedule.


Technote:
http://support.veritas.com/docs/268666


Please tell us if this helps you.



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As per our previous reply, marking the case as assumed answered and moving it to answered questions pool.

Thank you all for your comments.

I have decided the best way forward (solution) is to exclude the date from the tape backup a few days before.

Hassan

Hello,


Thank you for your update, the thread has nevertheless been moved to the assumed answered pool.


Regards