About Pausing and Resuming Tape Backup Operations

You might want to pause the copying of backups to tape for these reasons:

To investigate previous backup copy failures
To perform maintenance operations on tape devices

You pause tape backup operations for a specific media management software library by pausing its corresponding media manager library.

When you pause a media manager library, in-progress copies of backup pieces are allowed to complete, while backup pieces that were queued for copy but not yet copied are held until you resume the library. Pausing a library suspends future scheduled runs of tape backup jobs that reference the media manager library.

Note:

Tape backup jobs reference media manager libraries indirectly through their assigned media manager attribute sets.