First of all I have separate pools for monthly's versus weekly's. Second
I use bpmedialist (-l -p POOL_NAME) to list media and its expiration
(field 6) to determine if it needs to go offsite.  You could use the
time last written (field 7) field in bpmedialist and then compare that
date to determine what you want to do with that media.


Jason Doyle, Network Support
Microsoft Certified Professional
Information Technology
AQS Technical Services
Ph #: 262-369-7402
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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dave
Markham
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 10:20 AM
To: Dean
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] identifing tapes used for duplication

Dean wrote:

>What Jason said about setting up a seperate pool for duplicates is the
easiest.
>
>But if you can't do that, you can use bpimagelist -l and I think the 
>2nd or 3rd field is the copy number.
>
>
>On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:49:16 +0000, Dave Markham 
><dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net> wrote:
>  
>
>>I have just done a new install for a customer and now use media 
>>managers and other things i have not used before.
>>
>>I have a standard script which identifies tapes written per a variable

>>schedule so many hours ago.
>>This is fine for working out which are weekly full tapes etc, but i 
>>have now had to implement a tape duplicating system.
>>
>>I have got bpduplicate working and am going to launch it from 
>>sessions_notify or from cron and wait for jobs to finish. The problem 
>>is i then need to automatically identify the tapes bpduplicate wrote 
>>TO so ops can remove them in the morning.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Dave
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Right thanks

Yeah i have an offsite tape pool to use, i just need to identify those
tapes used each day.
I suppose i could list all tapes of that pool in the jukebox, but it
would be nicer to see which tapes were actually used.

I can do this on a schedule basis which is how i identify tapes used for
weekly, monthly backups with bpverify -p -sl <weekly_full> -hoursago n

So i guess theres no way to say what tapes used in what vol pool
hoursago ??

Cheers
Dave
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