Bob,

I have a perl script to manage tape ejection if you're interested.

-Eric


On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Bob Bolt wrote:

> I have a small DLT tape library that has an 8-slot "load pack" and a single
> slot loading door. To do my off-site duplications, I need to move some of
> the tapes out of the library to make room for the duplication tapes. Now
> what I am doing is using the hardware contol pad on the library to shuffle
> the tapes around so that the tapes I want to eject (incrementals or
> available) are in the load pack. The I remove the load pack, swap these
> tapes with the duplication pool tapes and then reload/update in the library.
> 
> As you might expect this is a tedious process, and being the lazy guy that I
> am, I wanted to write a script to perform this. But I can't find the
> commands I need:
> 
> 1. A command that queries the library to determine where the empty slots are
> (to be used as "shuffling locations")
> 
> 2. A command that physically moves a tape from one slot to another and then
> logically updates the volume database.
> 
> I looked at the vmchange -res command, which lets you specify a robot slot
> number, but can't see how I might coerce it into moving with the library.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Bob
> 
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