Yes, diskpart should do the trick.

Diskpart /s script.txt

[script.txt]
RESCAN
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK #
ONLINE
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL="SOME LABEL" QUICK
ASSIGN LETTER=A-Z
EXIT


The above is merely an example. I have not tried it. You will want to try the 
disk add manually to see the exact sequence. Please note, diskpart is not 
forgiving at all--if you make a mistake you will likely lose data.

Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Bill Boyer
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 3:56 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows scripting for snapshots

I have a customer that has a server with a very large (10TB) volume allocated 
on an XIV system. They want to backup this volume to TSM. He would like to 
create a snapshot of the volume in the XIV and mount that on the TSM server and 
then do an IMAGE backup directly to tape. But they want a way to script this. 
We can figure out the XCLI commands to create and map the snapshot, but the 
Winders command to get it mounted and a drive letter assigned is proving to be 
an issue.



Has anyone done anything similar to automate Windows disk manager in this 
fashion? Believe we would use DISKPART?





Bill Boyer

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Every Village has their idiot.." - ?


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