Greetings all!

Summary: Does anyone have a script to audit contents of all our tapes, or
other suggestion on how to verify what they actually contain?

Discussion:
As I have mentioned before, we have had serious, ongoing problems with our DLT
drives. We think we may have them resolved, finally. At this point I have no
known problems with drives or media, but I am concerned that some of the tapes
may have been damaged. I don't want to throw them all out on a maybe, but I
think I should do a surface scan of all our tapes to try to spot damage or
incomplete backups. Then I can throw out the few that don't repair immediately.

Reading the manuals it looks like I want to "audit contents" on each volume in
the library. But just doing an "audit contents *" would start up 300+
processes all waiting for their turn at a drive. So I need a script to start
one at a time, and wait until it finishes before it starts a new one. It will
need to run nohupped or be interuptible because extrapolating from the couple
of audits I have run as tests this will run for a couple of weeks, and my PC
isn't that stable.

Platform is ADSM server 3.1.2.20, command line interface 3.1.0.0, running on
AIX 4.1.5.

Before I invent a new wheel, I wonder if anyone has one they will let me copy?
Or is there a better way to verify that all our media are intact?

Please respond to me directly at hintze.kai AT amstr DOT com, as I get the list 
in
digest form. That is sufficient to keep a finger on what is happening, but
sometimes I miss details in the jumble.

Thanks,

Kai.