How to Idle a Library Drive

Idling a drive stops any archiving or staging activity that is in process. You might idle drives in a library if you wanted to manually manipulate cartridges in a library without disturbing archiving or staging operations.

  1. From the Manage Hosts menu or the Managed Hosts page, choose the name of the server that you want to administer.
  2. From the navigation tree, choose Archive Media.

    The Tape Library Summary page is displayed.

  3. Click the name of the library on which the drive that you want to idle is located.

    The Library and Drive Details page is displayed.

  4. Select the radio button next to the row in which the drive that you want to idle is located, and click Idle.
Next Steps

To restart archiving again after idling a drive, click Restart in the Archiving section of the Activity Management page. For more information, see How to Control Global Archiving Activity.