How to pause/unpause LTO3 tape drives via script
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 1 comment
I use Backup Exec 10d to manage a daily and two weekly backups.
We have 4 tape drives IBM1, IBM2, IBM3 and IBM4. There are two cascaded Drive Pools, each containing two tape drives.
The daily backup runs on the first of the 4 tape drives, IBM1.
On Fridays, I manually pause the tape drive IBM2 to force the weekly backup to start on tape drive IBM1 so that it will be finished with this tape drive by Monday for the daily backup to run.
On Sundays, I manually unpause the tape drive IBM2 to ensure that the backup can continue.
Does anyone know the command line to pause/unpause the tape drive?
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Have not checked the command
Have not checked the command line guide for 10D to verify this command is in the old version, but in 12.5
bemcmd.exe -o79 -d<device name> -ps:1
will pause it
and
bemcmd.exe -o79 -d<device name> -ps:0
will unpause it.
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