Media Request Delay

This property appears for master and media servers only.

The Media Request Delay property specifies how long NetBackup waits for media in nonrobotic drives. This is useful if a gravity feed stacker is used on a nonrobotic drive and there is a time delay between the dismount of one media and the mounting of another. Default: 0 seconds.

The Media Request Delay setting corresponds to MEDIA_REQUEST_DELAY in the /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf file.

During the delay period, NetBackup checks every 60 seconds to see if the drive is ready. If the drive is ready, NetBackup uses it. Otherwise, it waits another 60 seconds and checks again. If the total delay is not a multiple of 60, the last wait is the remainder. If the delay is less than 60 seconds, NetBackup checks only once at the end of the delay.

For example, assume you set the delay to 150 seconds. Here, NetBackup waits 60 seconds, checks for ready, waits 60 seconds, checks for ready, and then waits 30 seconds and checks for ready the last time. If the delay had been 50 seconds (this short a delay is not recommended), NetBackup would have checked only once, at the end of 50 seconds.