[Veritas-bu] Moving tapes within a tape library
2000-12-21 11:45:45
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[Veritas-bu] Moving tapes within a tape library |
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Bob Bolt bob.bolt AT ualberta DOT ca |
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Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:45:45 -0700 |
I have a small DLT tape library that has an 8-slot "load pack" and a single
slot loading door. To do my off-site duplications, I need to move some of
the tapes out of the library to make room for the duplication tapes. Now
what I am doing is using the hardware contol pad on the library to shuffle
the tapes around so that the tapes I want to eject (incrementals or
available) are in the load pack. The I remove the load pack, swap these
tapes with the duplication pool tapes and then reload/update in the library.
As you might expect this is a tedious process, and being the lazy guy that I
am, I wanted to write a script to perform this. But I can't find the
commands I need:
1. A command that queries the library to determine where the empty slots are
(to be used as "shuffling locations")
2. A command that physically moves a tape from one slot to another and then
logically updates the volume database.
I looked at the vmchange -res command, which lets you specify a robot slot
number, but can't see how I might coerce it into moving with the library.
Any ideas?
Bob
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