[Veritas-bu] Changing volume group of a netbackup tape

Tim:

Yes,  vmchange is the command you are looking for.

First, to get the day the tape was written, look at the "last_mounted" 
field from vmquery.
(Example below is from NBUX using the vmquery() function.)

         last_mounted = [Mon Dec 31 12:31:34 2001]

In this case, just break out "Mon" and derive your volume group name from that.

For offsite shipment and return dates, there are a couple other convenient 
fields that Veritas
doesn't tell you about.  (Ever wonder how BPVault does its dirty work?)

                         offsite_location = [-]
                        offsite_sent_date = [-]
                      offsite_return_date = [-]

The command  flags you want are:

                 vmchange -res
                 vmchange -offloc
                 vmchange -offsent
                 vmchange -offreturn

See the vmchange manpage for details :)

--PLB


At 11:32 AM 02/11/2002 +0000, Timothy J. Arnold wrote:
>Hi All.
>
>Does anyone know how I could do the following using the CLI.
>
>Each day I have a list of media which has been written to in the last 24
>hours (bpimagelist -idonly -media -hoursago 24) and I would like to move
>it to a volume group based on the date (i.e tapes written on Friday will
>have the volume group FRIDAY). I would also like a timestamp added to
>the tape to record when it goes offsite. Does anyone know how todo this
>in the CLI?
>
>I guess I can use something like vmchange?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Timothy
>
>
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