Tape job stopped by backup job

[Strecker25]

This is probably more of a feature request, but I need a way to make it so backup jobs do not have the ability to stop tape jobs. We have 10+ TB backups that run to tape once a month but they run more than 24 hours. When this happens our daily incrementals cancel the tape job and I have to disable the block job and restart the tape job.

[Shestakov]

Hello Ryan,
You may leverage pre- and post-job activity for the tape jobs. For instance as pre-job activity you set to disable mentioned backup jobs and as post-job activity to enable them back.

[Strecker25]

Thanks, I don't see that as an option...do you mean using pre and post scripts for the tape job?

[Shestakov]

You are right, I meant the scripts.

[Strecker25]

I tried to run a pre and post script with the following command saved as a .ps1 file:

Get-VBRjob -name "City File Servers" | Disable-VBRJob

and when i run the tape job the script does not run, we get the following error:

3/17/2016 9:27:09 PM :: Error running pre-job script: The specified executable is not a valid application for this OS platform.

[Shestakov]

Ryan,
Try to trigger pre and post job commands as batch files containing the PS scripts.

[veremin]

I'm wondering how you pre-job command looks like. Is it similar to the following?

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Powershell.exe -File C:\YourScript.ps1

Thanks.