Vault eject suspending a tape I wish to keep Active

[Noor_Toorabally]

Hello,

I have an issue, I have vault policies to suspend and eject tapes to offsite.

Hovewer I wish to keep one of the tapes that is supposed to be sent offsite for a restore, I reinserted the tape but each time vault job is launched, the tape is suspended.

Grateful if I can be helped about this?

[Marianne]

You can restore from a suspended tape.

The only thing you cannot do is to add more backups.

[Noor_Toorabally]

Thank you for your reply, I wrongly stated my issue, the problem is that the tape is being ejected everyday when vault job is done and I have to make someone reinsert it again everyday. I dont know if there is a way to add an exception for a particular tape so that it is not ejected.

[Mark_Solutions · Accepted solution]

I don't believe that you can prevent vault doing this as there is no where to exclude a single tape from the process.

However, you could right click on the tape in NBU and select MOVE - then select Standalone

NetBackup then thinks it is no longer in the library (even though it still is)

When you need to use it for a restore just update the inventory to see it again

[Noor_Toorabally]

Thank you, The solution works for me :)

[Marianne]

Another way is to change the selection criteria in the vault profile. Default selection is 0-8 days. If tape was written 3 days ago, change selection to 0-2 days. Change selection back after restore is done to include tape in eject.

[Mark_Solutions]

Good idea M -