Thanks Diane for your answers. It would appear that you are 
in fact ejecting one tape at a time, however via some sort of 
script doing that process multiple times. Upon reading my 
original reply to the first post on this subject, I see that 
I didn't specifically say that that I was addressing the lack 
of multiple tape ejects via the gui.

Scripting works, using the vmchange command, but of course then you 
must also get a bit more fancier to automate the process each week 
to identify and pull the proper full backups for off site storage.
It's just unfortunate that the product does not have this 
capability in the gui ... what's the point of having a point and 
shoot environment if you can't select several tapes from your 
media list and send them to the load port? 

I had just learned today that the tape operators have been opening
the main doors to change tapes, then running an inventory afterwards!
I suspect other users are doing the same.

I see that Ryan replied with a similar scripting answer. I appreciate
that info, however you still would need to generate the list of tapes
to send to the stdin of the program ... either manually or via a 
media report. Guess I'll have to put my perl cap back on and limber
up the fingers ;)


"McCormick, Diane S" wrote:
> 
> most of the time we use the NT administration but we also use the UNIX java
> ......I would have to look for a script with vmchange....have you checked
> the goodies directory....get back with me tomorrow and I will see what I can
> find.....
> 

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Bradley W. Fisher
Motorola IISG/Desktop Solutions UNIX systems consultant