Great idea and script, I will try.

thanks alot!




Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PeeVRo.co DOT uk> wrote on 08/20/2007 04:26:24
PM:

> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:11:58 +0100, Davina Treiber
> <Davina.Treiber AT PEEVRO.CO DOT UK> wrote:
>
> >Mark them all as recyclable (easy with a simple script), set the pool
> >they are in to "Recycle to other pools", and set the pools you want to
> >use them in to "Recycle from other pools". If either of the pools
> >concerned is the Default pool you won't be able to set this up, but
> >marking Default tapes as recyclable will allow them to be re-used in the
> >Default pool anyway.
>
> If these tapes are all in the Default pool, you could create a Scratch
pool
> and label all your old tapes into that. Set the Scratch pool to "Recycle
to
> other pools" and set all tapes in the Scratch pool to recyclable. The
> following script will help:
>
> #!/bin/ksh
> THISSERVER=$(uname -n)
> NSRSERVER=${1:-$THISSERVER}
> mminfo -s $NSRSERVER -q "pool=scratch,pool=Scratch,!volrecycle" -r
> volume | while read VOLUME; do
>         echo "Marking scratch volume $VOLUME on server $NSRSERVER as
> recyclable"
>         nsrmm -s $NSRSERVER -o recyclable -y $VOLUME
> done
>
> Needless to say you should not do any backups to the Scratch pool.

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