>From Vericon, I recall a Veritas engineer saying that bpvault will be
included in the 4.xx release of Data Center.
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Dennis Dwyer wrote:
> You know ... with all the interest that seems to be flying around this group
> regarding injecting and ejecting more than one tape at a time through a CAP
> door, it appears that those features oughta be standard issue within the
> NetBackup product. Perhaps a Veritas person who monitors this list can give
> us some insight as to whether that will ever happen and when (cast in Jell-O
> of course). I'd hate to think as the NBU product evolves, it won't include
> this capability.
>
> Regards,
> Dennis
>
> Quote: "Time is not a test of the truth"
> Translation: Just because you've always done it that way, doesn't make it
> right
>
> Dennis F. Dwyer
> Enterprise Storage Manager
> Tampa Electric Company
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> >>> Raymond Jackson <Jacksonr AT lucent DOT com> 02/09/01 11:33AM >>>
>
> Here's one in ksh I just finished. It works with our Sun L700
> (a re-labeled StorageTek.)
>
> I first tried using vmchange with the "-e" option, but I got
> back an error indication that it wasn't supported for my library.
> With the help of this list I switched to tldtest and vmupdate
> and it's working nicely now.
>
> I'm supporting a library in Colorado from here in California.
> There are operators there, but they only move tapes; they
> don't know anything about NBU. I first wrote a script to run
> in the morning ejecting tapes based on our offsite retention
> policy that emails the operators when the tapes are in the CAP.
> This second script runs late in the afternoon and loads up the
> replacement tapes that the operators put in the CAP during the
> day. We've only been running a week with both scripts, but so
> far it's looking good.
>
> Ray
>
> Steve Quan wrote:
> >
> > Yeah :) however, the only problem (for us anyway) is that it puts the
> > tapes into *any* available (empty) slots, and we have a requirement for
> > keeping some slots reserved for out of library recoveries etc. We script
> > around "vmchange -i -rc1 <freeslotLocation> -m <volser>".
> >
> > I'm still looking for the command to add new tapes via the CAP. I'd hoped
> > that vmadd with a "-i" would do, but I was forced to use vmadd to put in
> > the database, then vmchange to inject to some free slot.
> >
> > /Steve
> > ---
> > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Donaldson, Grant wrote:
> >
> > > With regards to auto-injecting tapes, we are utilizing the following
> > > command from within the /usr/openv/netbackup/vault/production directory
> > > that works great:
> > >
> > > > ./vmupdate -rn 0 -rt tld -use_barcode_rules -empty_ie
> > > >
> > > We are utilizing an STK 9740 Tape Library with a 14 slot CAP. I got
> > > this command from the following e-mail to this list:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > From: Brian Blake[SMTP:bblake AT veritas DOT com]
> > > > Sent: July 12, 2000 12:33 AM
> > > > To: Henschell, John
> > > > Cc: 'bpvault AT veritas DOT com'
> > > > Subject: Re: New tapes not using the bar-code rule
> > > > set
> > > >
> > > > John,
> > > >
> > > > If you wish to use barcode rules when injecting, you need to
> > > > do one of two
> > > > things.
> > > >
> > > > Check out the Vault SysAdm Guide... Procedures - Misc, I
> > > > believe... it
> > > > describes how to modify bpinject so as to use the barcode
> > > > rules.
> > > >
> > > > Or, you could use the following command:
> > > >
> > > > /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmupdate -rn <robot-number> -rt
> > > > <robot-type> -empty_ie
> > > > -use_barcode_rules
> > > >
> > > > That will empty the CAP and also use the barcode rules for
> > > > any new media. This
> > > > is what we will be replacing bpinject with in future
> > > > versions of bpvault.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Brian
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----------
> > > > From: RYAN ANDERSON[SMTP:RYAN_ANDERSON AT udlp DOT com]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:38 PM
> > > > To: David Stringer
> > > > Cc: veritas-bu AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU
> > > > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Using CAP/Mailslot and Netbackup 3.4
> > > >
> > > > David Stringer wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi People,
> > > > >
> > > > > We are using Netbackup 3.4 and a StorageTek 9740 tape library. There
> > > > > doesn't seem to be anyway through the netbackup gui to add/remove
> > > > > tapes
> > > > > to the library through the 12 tape CAP/mailslot on the library. Would
> > > > > there be anyscripts that would accomplish this, or is anyone aware of
> > > > > how to do it through the gui ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > David Stringer
> > > > > std AT telusplanet DOT net
> > > >
> > > > I believe the answer you are looking for is how to simply add in tape.
> > > > From Media Manager do Actions --> New --> Single Volume --> (Choose type
> > > > of media and type of library), then a new GUI will come up: Give tape
> > > > the correct pool, slot, etc, then click the YES radio button for 'Inject
> > > > via Mailslot?' , click 'OK' and wah-la.
> > > >
> > > > NOTE: Put the order of tapes you are going to add from top to bottom!
> > > > The first one you add in may be tape 000001, but if HIU046 is in the top
> > > > slot, it will grab it instead.
> > > >
> > > > You can choose the add multiple volumes, but you then have to go back
> > > > and physically add in the tapes afterwards (at least in 3.2). Scripting
> > > > the ejection of tapes is pretty easy and straightforward with:
> > > >
> > > > vmchange -res -m <media id> -mt dlt -e
> > > >
> > > > Injecting them *may* be possible (and undocumented) with vmchange, but I
> > > > don't know.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > RCA
> > > > --
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> > > > Unix Administrator | 763.572.6684 (desk)
> > > > ryan_anderson AT udlp DOT com | 952.235.9936 (pager)
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