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[Veritas-bu] L700 tapes ejecting help

2005-01-07 06:59:47
Subject: [Veritas-bu] L700 tapes ejecting help
From: dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net (Dave Markham)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:59:47 +0000
Eric Ljungblad wrote:

> 2003-Advanced server Master and Media server -
>4 DLT7000's 1 robot - Sun L1800 48 tapes -
>
>Can I setup a script to eject just the full tapes from
>a weekend backup with only 4 import slots and 10 full tapes?
>We use between 10 and 12 tapes for a NT-WEEKLY backup -
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>I have 4 schedules - NT-DAILY, NT-WEEKLY, NT-MONTHLY AND NT-YEARLY -
>the dailys are diff-inc -30 day hold, FUll weekly = 3 month, Full monthly =
>1 year, Full yearly = infinity 9 over 30years.
>
>Thanks
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Markham
>To: BeDour, Wayne
>Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Sent: 1/7/2005 3:10 AM
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] L700 tapes ejecting help
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>BeDour, Wayne wrote:
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>>Dave:
>>We are running HP-UX with a SureStore 20/700 tape library.  I have a
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>script
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>>that that we run via cron that selects tapes written to a specific
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>policy
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>>and all full tapes then ejects them to the cap.  If you think this will
>>help, let me know and I'll send you a copy of the script.
>>
>>Wayne BeDour 
>>IT Unix System Administrator 
>>PH: 313-240-3374  FAX:  313-240-3065  
>>Internet:  wbedour AT lear DOT com 
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>>Dave Markham wrote, in part,  on 1/6/2005 6:39 AM:
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>>>Has anyone got a Sun L700 and they automatically eject tapes for ops.
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>>>I had assumed ops could just go down to the unit and open it up and 
>>>take out the tapes with barcodes i gave them, but i have been told i 
>>>need to eject tapes to some load port.
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>Definitly please.
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>On my other jukeboxes after ops have changed tapes the robot does an 
>inventory then multiple tmie throuhg the day i run a script called 
>loadtape which inventorys the jukebox for netbackup automatically.
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>I have a script to identify the tapes which need to be ejected and know 
>the robtest commands to move them manually by echo "m sxx ???" | tldtest
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>-r <devive>  but if you have something which does all this that would be
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>fantastic.
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>Thanks
>Dave
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I attempted to do something like this on an L1000 a while ago which has 
only 1 inport.
It involved identifying tapes used with bpverify -p -sl Weekly_Full 
-hoursago 18, then echoing commands to tldtest.

e.g echo "m s12 i" | tldtest -r /dev/sg/c0t0l0

Then having to check the inport again robtest commands and sleeping 
until it was free to move a tape into.

The theory being ops could go and take tape from inport then wait 10 
seconds or whatever and another tape would be there and repeat until all 
tapes were out.

I decided to can it because it was much easier to just let them open the 
jukebox up and take out the tapes i identified with bar codes. They then 
put scratch tapes in ( from a list i provide each day of scratch tapes ) 
and i automatically reinventory the robot periodically with :-

vmupdate -x -rn 0 -rt tld -rh `uname -n` -vh `uname -n` -use_barcode_rules

The L700 needs a power off i think and has 600 odd tapes s would be a 
nightmare for this approach which is why i wanna move tapes to a CAP or 
whatever it is.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Dave



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