HOLD Command

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HOLD Command

Use the HOLD command to interrupt or temporarily halt the execution of a specified job. You can place a job on hold at any time before or during processing except when a job is compiling. Jobs placed on hold with the HOLD command are left in the job queue with a status of on hold. To view the status of a job, use the QUERY REQUESTS command.

If you put a job on hold before it begins processing, CA VM:Backup starts the job from the beginning when you release it. If you put a job on hold during processing, the point at which CA VM:Backup restarts the job varies depending on the type of job and other conditions. The table indicates how CA VM:Backup handles interrupted jobs when you release them.

If you put on hold, then release:	CA VM:Backup restarts job from:
AUTOCAT job	Last completed catalog
Backup, restore, MPC, or REINIT job, restart recovery not enabled	Beginning
Backup job, restart recovery enabled	Last completed domain on last completed tape for each tape stream
Restore job, restart recovery enabled	Last completed domain; restarts restores of incompletely restored domains from beginning of domain
MPC job, restart recovery enabled	Last domain from input tape that was successfully copied to output tapes
REINIT job, restart recovery enabled	Last reinitialized tape

There are two special cases for backup jobs.

If you put an incremental backup job on hold, and while it is on hold the catalog on which the job is based is discarded, CA VM:Backup restarts the job from the beginning, but performs a full backup instead of an incremental backup.
If you put an incremental backup job specifying file-level detail change detection on hold, and while it is on hold the catalog on which the job is based is condensed, CA VM:Backup restarts the job from the beginning, but performs a full backup instead of an incremental backup.
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More information:

Restart Recovery

RELEASE Command

Definitions

jobid: Specifies the job identification number, assigned by CA VM:Backup when the job is submitted, of the job to put on hold. You do not have to specify the leading zeros. To view a job's jobid, use the QUERY REQUESTS command.

Examples

To place backup job 00000024 on hold, enter:

vmbackup hold 24