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is this how to suspend SLP jobs?

manatee
Level 6

NBU 7.6.0.3

i only have two tape drives and both are in use by dedup jobs. i also have a restore job that is in waiting.

in order to give priority to the restore job, i cancelled the currently running dedup jobs, suspended the secondary operations on SLP, and restarted the restore operation.

question, is this the proper way to "suspend" dedups jobs? i read somewhere that cancelled dedup jobs will persist and will continue until they are done.

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Marianne
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Your process was correct. You cancelled the job in Activity Monitor and then suspended the SLP. When you activate the SLP again, the cancelled job will be resubmitted.

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sdo
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Suspending an SLP is different to cancelling an SLP.

Cancel has two meanings in NetBackup - one meaning for active jobs, another meaning for SLP policies/definitions.

Cancelling an active job in activity monitor, is actually an abort that active job - it is not a suspend of an SLP, and it is not a cancel of an SLP - it is simply an abort of a job.

An un-suspended SLP will re-submit an aborted duplication job.

Whereas 'cancelling' and SLP job (at the command line) will cause those SLP jobs to never be re-attempted.

And if an SLP is not suspended, then further SLP duplication jobs can be submitted.

manatee
Level 6

so i effectively terminated the dedup then. is there a way to resume or restart it?

revarooo
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The images that need duplicating should get rebatched later into another SLP job.

Marianne
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Your process was correct. You cancelled the job in Activity Monitor and then suspended the SLP. When you activate the SLP again, the cancelled job will be resubmitted.