Have you tried "available_media"?
Think it's in /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/(admincmd or goodies).

Prasad.

gjohnson AT ADMWORLD DOT com wrote:

> I'm using Veritas Netbackup 3.4 with 3.4.1 patches in Solaris 8 and DLT 8000
> with 9 tape library ( well 8 plus a cleaning tape ) .  As the backups are
> running is there an way to monitor how much tape is left?  I'd like to  be
> able to get a sense of when I need to swap out tapes before i run out.  I
> don't think going to all the tapes in the library, adding up the k written
> to tape and doing subtraction is a optimal thing to do. 
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