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Backup [name] is already in use. How to delete a stale/hung backup job from VSC 2.0?

richard_may
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A backup job was hung at 89%.  We ended up rebooting the machine and now we cannot run the job at all, nor can we edit the job.

How do I clear this out?

Thanks!

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jerimiah303
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I ran into this issue when snapmirror update was selected within the job and the relationship was broken. Repaired the relationship, resumed the snapmirror and the job exited with success.

richard_may
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Good catch!  I just checked our Snapvault and sure enough, a target volume is missing.  I'll get that fixed tomorrow.

In the meantime, I would still like to be able to edit and run the backup again.  Anyone else know how to kill the job?

jerimiah303
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You could create a duplicate job w/o the snap update.

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