David,

If you happen to be in the Houston, Texas metroplex area or Dallas, a
very good choice is Veritrust.  (www.veritrust.net)

They have an excellent and highly customizable tape tracking and
rotation product that is accessed via the web. You can also do scripts
that interact with their database product and you can add a lot of
detail and description info. to your tape records.

This is what many of my customers down here use.

Your other option might be to take a look at the Legato....er....EMC
Alphastor product which is another database product designed to track
and manage tape movement.  This product also integrates tightly with
Legato NetWorker.

Joseph Ortiz
DSMCS, Inc.
Stafford, TX

----- Original Message -----
From: "Browning, David" <DBrown AT LSUHSC DOT EDU>
Date: Thursday, December 14, 2006 9:55 am
Subject: [Networker] Tape Management/Offsite tape rotation
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU

> Just wondering what everyone else does to track, and mark, offsite
> tapes.   The process within Networker is very labor intensive, and 
> I was
> wondering what other people were using.   I was looking at Bocada
> software, but that's more of a Networker backup management piece of
> software.  I was wondering if there was something like that for tape
> management - specifically telling an operator (non-backup person) what
> tapes need to be brought offsite, what tapes can come back from 
> offsite,and then "marking" the appropriate location of those tapes 
> withinNetworker. 
> 
> 
> 
> Any information would be appreciated. 
> 
> 
> 
> David M. Browning Jr.
> 
> LSUHSC Enterprise Network Operations/Help Desk
> 
> 
> 
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