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yes, it is slow.  that's why many people have rewritten it in Perl or just 
cleaned up the code itself.  In fact, veritas even wrote a technote on how 
to clean it up.  It basically is running bpmedialist into a file once and 
grep'ing the file multiple times instead of running bpmedialist once for 
each media id.

here is technote:
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/199300.htm

I personally just cleaned it up, but also added more functionality like 
the ability to run it against only a certain robot or certain volume pool 
and have added fields like expiration date and last write date, which I 
use to determine which tapes are ejected and which ones stay.


- Scott





"Siano, James C" <james.c.siano AT lmco DOT com>
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        Subject:        [Veritas-bu] available media script is slow and I need 
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hello.

Running the available media script sometimes is like running through thick
mud.  I use the script's output to see what tapes are available so I can
reuse them.   I want to bring back my tapes from a year ago and recycle
them.

I run available media on my Unix master, then ftp it to PC and put it into
EXCEL so I can pretty it up.  Paper is better for me sitting next to a 
pile
of tapes.

* What I'm looking for:
I would like to get a script that works faster than the available-media 
* the script would include an output column for volume group and 
expiration
date. 

Jim
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">yes, it is slow. &nbsp;that's why many people 
have rewritten it in Perl or just cleaned up the code itself. &nbsp;In fact, 
veritas even wrote a technote on how to clean it up. &nbsp;It basically is 
running bpmedialist into a file once and grep'ing the file multiple times 
instead of running bpmedialist once for each media id.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">here is technote:</font>
<br><font size=2 
face="Arial">http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/199300.htm</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">I personally just cleaned it up, but also added 
more functionality like the ability to run it against only a certain robot or 
certain volume pool and have added fields like expiration date and last write 
date, which I use to determine which tapes are ejected and which ones 
stay.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">- Scott</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">hello.<br>
<br>
Running the available media script sometimes is like running through thick<br>
mud. &nbsp;I use the script's output to see what tapes are available so I 
can<br>
reuse them. &nbsp; I want to bring back my tapes from a year ago and recycle<br>
them.<br>
<br>
I run available media on my Unix master, then ftp it to PC and put it into<br>
EXCEL so I can pretty it up. &nbsp;Paper is better for me sitting next to a 
pile<br>
of tapes.<br>
<br>
* What I'm looking for:<br>
I would like to get a script that works faster than the available-media <br>
* the script would include an output column for volume group and expiration<br>
date. &nbsp; <br>
<br>
Jim<br>
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