If NetBackup can't move a tape back from the drive to its slot, it will
down the drive (at least in our environment - & as the OS is Solaris
will log a message to /var/adm/messages).

We used to have a small robot where the OPs manually changed tapes by
opening the robot up & moving tapes.  As part of the script that told
them what to do I used tldtest to check which slots the tapes in the
drives came from, and make sure those slots were kept free.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf 
> Of Dave Markham
> Sent: 05 June 2007 11:16
> To: Justin Piszcz
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use
> 
> 
> Justin Piszcz wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Dave Markham wrote:
> >
> >> Netbackup 5.0MP7 Solaris9
> >>
> >> Anyone know how to identify from command line what drives 
> are in use, or
> >> what tapes are in use while a job is running.
> >>
> >> We have an issue where ops keep opening the jukebox and 
> changing tapes
> >> while jobs are running. The job is fine as the L700 library just
> >> suspends writes but the problem is they fill slots up which are
> >> destination slots of tapes in use. Once the tapes have 
> finished and a
> >> new tape is required to continue the job the old tape 
> cannot be put back
> >> into its slot as it has some tape in it.
> >>
> >> I therefore sometimes need to manually move the tapes to 
> another slot
> >> using robtest. Issue is a lot of the time the backup job is still
> >> running and i dont want to unload the tapes in use so i 
> need to identify
> >> them.
> >>
> >> I have been using iostat -xnd 2 10 |grep rmt and seeing which are
> >> written to and then double checking with the gui the tape 
> ids, but i'd
> >> like a nice netbackup command to just say tapes being 
> written to at that
> >> moment in time.
> >>
> >> Cheers
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> >
> > How to see what drives are in use? vmoprcmd -d ds
> >
> Thanks.
> 
> Problem with this command is it shows tapes in all the drives 
> due to the
> problem i mentioned in my mail. Tapes are in drives due to not being
> able to move back to destination slots. I need to confirm the drives
> which are in use for the current job(s) running. Normally its just one
> job running see and as im using ITC 2 drives will be in use. I need to
> determine these so i can then safely move tapes out of the 
> other drives.
> 
> Cheers
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