[Veritas-bu] tapes expiring
2002-06-25 19:52:00
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[Veritas-bu] tapes expiring |
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ddunham AT taos DOT com (Darren Dunham) |
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Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:52:00 -0700 (PDT) |
> Hey Mark and everyone else....
>
>
> We've got the same problem here. I did a little poking around and vmquery
> returns an expiration date (field 20) of 00/00/000 for EVERY volume!
I think that's normal. That's the date to toss the volume in the trash.
> It's
> not a problem with your script except that you are running vmchange on every
> tape whether it is active or not. I don't think that it will hurt the active
> tapes but it will waste machine cycles. Since we have thousands of tapes,
> I'm not sure that I want to do this.
But it also checks whether it is assigned (field 28), yes? So it won't
run on assigned tapes. Do you have thousands of unassigned tapes?
> You can get active expiration data on active volumes using bpmedialist. But
> that won't give you squat on expired volumes.
I think you mean it doesn't give you anything on expired images
(different from expired volumes).
> So, can anyone tell me where I can easily get expiration data for my tapes?
> This pool thing has killed us twice in a major way.
> # Note: vmquery col 1 is tape number
> # col 3 is tape type
> # col 12 is poolname
> # col 20 is "assigned" date
>
> tapelist=`vmquery -a -w | awk '$3 !~ /CLN/ && \
> $20 == "00/00/0000" && \
> $12 != "'$SPname'" && \
> $28 == 0 {print $1}' `
Just run this command and see what the output is...
vmquery -a -w | awk '$3 !~ /CLN/ && 20 == "00/00/0000" && $28 == 0 {print $1}'
| wc
What do you get? That should only show unassigned tapes (including
those in the scratch pool).
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Darren Dunham ddunham AT taos DOT com
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