Managing a Tape Backup Job

After you have created a tape backup job, you may need to modify some of its properties based on job requirements or delete it when no longer required.

To manage a tape backup job with Cloud Control:

Edit Tape Backup Job

Complete the steps in "Creating a Tape Backup Job".
Select the tape backup job that you want to edit.
Click Edit to change the existing job properties and schedule settings.
Make the required changes to the existing Media Manager Library, Attribute Set, Priority, Copies, Runtime Window, and From Tag values, to edit job properties.
Make changes the existing schedule options, to edit the job schedule settings.
Click OK.

Delete Tape Backup Job

Complete the steps in "Accessing the Recovery Appliance Home Page".
On the Recovery Appliance Home page, from the Recovery Appliance menu, select Copy-to-Tape Job Templates.

The Copy-to-Tape Job Template page appears.
From the list of jobs, select the job that you want to delete.
Click Delete.

A confirmation message appears asking whether you want to continue with deleting this job. Click Yes.

To manage a tape backup job with DBMS_RA:

Edit Tape Backup Job

You can modify one or more attributes of an SBT job by calling the given procedure in the DBMS_RA PL/SQL package.

Using SQL*Plus or SQL Developer, connect to the Recovery Appliance database as the Recovery Appliance administrator.
Run the UPDATE_SBT_JOB_TEMPLATE procedure, providing the name of the SBT job to modify and the new values for its attributes.

This example modifies the priority of the SBT job named oltp_arch_lastfull. The values of other arguments present in CREATE_SBT_JOB_TEMPLATE and omitted in this call remain unchanged.
```
BEGIN
  DBMS_RA.UPDATE_SBT_JOB_TEMPLATE(
    template_name => 'oltp_arch_lastfull',
    priority      => DBMS_RA.SBT_PRIORITY_HIGH);
END;
```

Delete Tape Backup Job

You can delete a SBT job by calling the given DBMS_RA PL/SQL package procedure.

Using SQL*Plus or SQL Developer, connect to the Recovery Appliance metadata database as the Recovery Appliance administrator.
Run the DELETE_SBT_JOB_TEMPLATE procedure, providing the name of the SBT job to delete.