Pausing and resuming storage devices

You can pause and resume the media server and all of its storage devices.

You can pause a media server to prevent scheduled and new jobs from running on that server while maintenance activities, such as replacing a tape device, are being performed. Active jobs will not be affected if they started before the server was paused.

To pause or resume the media server

  1. On the navigation bar, click Devices.

  2. Click the server icon.

  3. Under Device Tasks in the task pane, select Paused.

    A check mark appears next to the Paused option if the media server is currently paused.

    If the media server was not already paused, it is now paused. If the media server was already paused, it is now resumed.

To pause or resume a storage device

  1. On the navigation bar, click Devices.

  2. Click the storage device.

  3. Under Device Tasks in the task pane, select Paused.

    A check mark appears next to the Paused option if the device is currently paused.

    If the device was not already paused, it is now paused. If the device was already paused, it is now resumed.

More Information

Pausing and resuming a backup-to-disk folder