Re: [Networker] Tape Pull Inquiry

Hello,
Besides making sure that your backups do not overrun the backup windows, 
you can ensure that tapes written in past few days gets withdrawn, if you 
have specific pools setup for weekday and month end you can query the Tape 
lib to eject them with proper instructions to the operations staff so that 
appropriate retentions gets applied when sending offsite.
I use a slightly different script that goes after few more days worth of 
tapes, i also do a tape list for what's used in last day and send it to 
operations staff for competition of what's being withdrawn automatically, 
if there is a tape missing they will do a manual withdrawal before sending 
them offsite, lastly, a unload tape job precedes any tape withdraw so that 
any mounted tapes can be included.
mminfo  -av -r"volume" -q "location= "[email protected]",savetime>=1 weeks ago" 
HTH



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Greetings All:

 

I am currently having my staff run the following command right before
they "package" our tapes to be sent to offsite vendor.

 

The problem we are seeing is we are missing tapes, if it's writing when
we create the list, we ignore the tape, and we are finding that it does
not get picked up on the next day.  Does ANYONE have a better solution
to ensure we are picking up all of our onsite tapes to go offsite.

 

 

What we currently do:

 

mminfo -s ct3as16p -av -t "yesterday" -r "volume,location"
>"C:\Documents and Settings\opsreboot\Desktop\tapes.txt" 

 

 

 

 

    Patrick Howard

 

        476 Wheelers Farm Road

              Milford, CT 06461

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