I have some restoring I need to do, and these backups I need to restore from are expired. I am currently working throught the import process, but I am wonder what my options are to make sure no more backups run and overwrite them. The safest would be lock the tapes on the switch on the tapes itself, but what can I do from software?
If I were to put exclude dates for the next few days for every schedule in netbackup would that do the trick? Are there any caveats such as "retry" backups might still run. Currently I am watching it, and have also cancel all active/queued jobs via the GUI.
wrobbins: If I protect the meed by suspending it, can I still restore from it while it is in that state? Same goes for the bprdreq, will that include restore requests?
I beg to differ, Christoph... Inports work 100% if NOT imported to original pool. Something like Restore, Import, Recover will work just fine (any pool name that will never be used for backups).
Bill, stopping bprd will also prevent imports and restores.
Stopping or suspending the scheduler (nbpem) will prevent backups but will allow restores.
Suspend scheduler: nbpemreq -suspend_scheduling