I've found that BPVault from Veritas acutally works quite well for
automating the eject of tapes as well as the inject when they return from
offsite.  I'm sure your local Sales Rep would love to discuss it with you.
:-)

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU]On Behalf Of Rebecca Henderson
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:45 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup offsite question


I was wondering if anyone has any information to share about the offsite
management
of tapes with Netbackup.
I run my offsites and eject them with a simple script but I can't get
things going
to add the back in easily. Does anyone have a script or some Ideas for
me?
here is the script I use to create my offsite list from my pool, e-mail
me the list and
eject them through the port of a STK9710.
BPIMAGELIST="/opt/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimagelist"
VMQUERY="/opt/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery"
VMCHANGE="/opt/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange"

OUTPUTFILE=`date '+weekly_eject.out_%m%d%y
NOTIFY="root"

NUM_OF_TAPES=0

echo "\nRundate:`date +%a' '%h' '%d' '%H:%M`           Group Health
Cooperative" > $OUTPUTFILE
echo "==========================================================="   >>
$OUTPUTFILE
echo " List of offsite UNIX tapes created in the past week"          >>
$OUTPUTFILE
echo "===========================================================\n" >>
$OUTPUTFILE
echo " " >> $OUTPUTFILE
echo "             Volser " >> $OUTPUTFILE
echo "             ------"  >> $OUTPUTFILE


for media in `$BPIMAGELIST -idonly -media -hoursago 120 -rl 4
2>/dev/null | sort`
do
        if [ `$VMQUERY -b -m $media |grep $media |awk '{print $3}'` =
TLD ]
        then
             NUM_OF_TAPES=`expr $NUM_OF_TAPES + 1`
                if [ $NUM_OF_TAPES -le 14 ]
                then
                     echo "      Ejecting tape ${media}!"
                     $VMCHANGE -res -m $media -mt dlt -rt none -rh
robot -rc1 0 -rc2 0 -e -sec 5
                     echo "             $media" >> $OUTPUTFILE
                else
                     echo "             $media *" >>$OUTPUTFILE
                fi
        fi
done

echo "--------------------------------------" >> $OUTPUTFILE
echo "Total tapes for offsite: $NUM_OF_TAPES" >> $OUTPUTFILE
echo "--------------------------------------" >> $OUTPUTFILE
echo " ">>$OUTPUTFILE
echo "To withdraw tapes from the STK 9710 unit,"       >> $OUTPUTFILE
echo "unlock the 9710's CAP (Cartridge Access Port)\n" >> $OUTPUTFILE

if [ $NUM_OF_TAPES -gt 14 ]
 then
   echo "\n* NOTE: CAP only holds 14 tapes, have UNIX Tech Support
manually" >> $OUTPUTFILE
   echo "        eject these tapes after you have emptied the 9710's
CAP\n"  >> $OUTPUTFILE

fi

#find_eject >$NUM_OF_TAPES

/usr/ucb/Mail -s "Offsite UNIX tapes ready" $NOTIFY <$OUTPUTFILE
Any Ideas out there???
Thanks in advance,
Rebecca
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