You'll have to script around tldtest rather than robtest.

echo "s s" | tldtest -r /dev/sg/cXtXlX 

..where the cXtXlX is the address of the robot's control.  The "s s" is
"Status of the Slots".  You can send similar robotic commands in this way,
too.

This strikes me as hazardous, though, without careful scripting.

"Down" the target drive (see "vmoprcmd") in Netbackup first, or NB won't
know it's in use since it's not in control of the process.  "up" it after
you're all through.

Check the destination drive to see that it's not in use, too, "s d" for
"status of the drives".

It's tough, but with care, it could be done.  It seems unnecessary if the
catalog is adequately protected.  How is the customer going to guarantee a
quiesced catalog backup?  Note, that the tldtest commands are based around
drive & slot numbers, you'll have to translate tape numbers to slot numbers
first.

-M



-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce D. Sprangers [mailto:bsprangers AT omniecs DOT com]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 1:23 PM
To: Vrts-Bu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Robtest script


Greetings all,

Have a customer who would like to script robtest to load a tape after
regular backups are finished, load a certain tape into a drive and then run
a 'manual' backup of their NBU server via ufsdump to that drive.  Does
anyone have any experience with scripting robtest?

Thanks

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