I've been looking for someway of cancelling the backup too, but no luck. The snapshot been removed takes more time than the backup.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Stefan Folkerts <stefan.folke...@gmail.com>wrote: > I use something like your "STAAAAHHHHPPP-procedure" and don't know of any > way to do it using the plug-in, I don't think it can be done. > > Part of your hypothetical problem might be to aggresive vSphere DRS > settings that triggered these purely hypothetical vMotion jobs in vCenter, > I find the default DRS setting to be way to jumpy and tone that setting > back a bit. > > Stefan > > > > > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Prather, Wanda <wanda.prat...@icfi.com > >wrote: > > > If I do a "run now" backup task/schedule from the plug-in, and decide > it's > > a bad thing (say hypothetically that I started a multiple-vm backup task > > and noticed that it caused massive VMotion activity - just saying > > hypothetically, not admitting anything, oh no, nothing to see here....) > how > > do you cancel a backup task from the plug-in? > > > > If hypothetically I really REALLY wanted to stop the active backup task, > > one might suppose I could have hypothetically done it in a panic by > > screaming STAAAAHHHHPPP!! several times loudly and killing the session > from > > the server end and shutting down dsmcad on the data mover vm, which is > also > > my plug-in server. But hypothetically there should be something I could > do > > instead from the plug-in, right? > > > > > > > > Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.com| > > www.icfi.com > > ICF International | 401 E. Pratt St, Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | > > 410.539.1135 (o) > > > -- __________________________________ Leandro Mazur IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Tivoli Storage Manager V6.3 Linkedin: http://br.linkedin.com/in/leandromazur