11-18-2015 11:02 PM
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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11-19-2015 01:17 AM
11-18-2015 11:38 PM
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.
11-19-2015 12:27 AM
so i effectively terminated the dedup then. is there a way to resume or restart it?
11-19-2015 12:52 AM
The images that need duplicating should get rebatched later into another SLP job.
11-19-2015 01:17 AM