Pausing and Resuming Tape Backup Operations

This section describes the steps to pause an ongoing tape backup job or media manager operations and how to resume them later.

Cloud_Control
Command_Line

To pause and resume tape backup operations with Cloud Control:

You pause ongoing media manager library operations in a situation where you want to put the current media manager library on hold and resume it after a certain period.

Complete the steps in "Accessing Recovery Appliance in Cloud Control".
From the Recovery Appliance Menu, select Media Managers.
From the list of media manager libraries, select the library for which you want to pause all ongoing jobs.
Click Pause.

You can resume operations of any paused media manager library for the library and its associated job operations to continue.

Complete the steps in "Accessing Recovery Appliance in Cloud Control".
From the Recovery Appliance Menu, select Media Managers.
Select the paused media manager library for which you want to resume job operations.
Click Resume.

To pause and resume tape backup operations with DBMS_RA:

Pause Tape Backup

With SQL*Plus or SQL Developer, connect to the Recovery Appliance database as the Recovery Appliance administrator.
Run the DBMS_RA.PAUSE_SBT_LIBRARY procedure.

For example, run the following PL/SQL anonymous block:
```
BEGIN
  DBMS_RA.PAUSE_SBT_LIBRARY(
    lib_name => 'osbsbt');
END;
```
The library status in the view RA_SBT_LIBRARY changes to PAUSE.

Resume Tape Backup

With SQL*Plus or SQL Developer, connect to the Recovery Appliance metadata database as the Recovery Appliance administrator.
Run the DBMS_RA.RESUME_SBT_LIBRARY procedure.

For example, run the following PL/SQL anonymous block:
```
BEGIN
  DBMS_RA.RESUME_SBT_LIBRARY(
    lib_name => 'osbsbt');
END;
```

The library status in the view RA_SBT_LIBRARY changes back to READY.