[Veritas-bu] Sorting tapes in library

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This may seem like an odd request but... Anyone know of a script that
would sort the tapes in my libraries alphanumerically?  We have several
P3000 libraries and we periodically go and pull 50-75+ tapes out of each
of them to swap for fresh tapes.  Because it is so many tapes, it is
inefficient to use the load port to do them 12 at a time, so instead we
open the doors to the library.
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Tapes always end up out of sequence because they fill up at different
rates and get pulled out of the library out of sequence.  So, we end up
doing this long hunt & peck routine trying to locate each of these
tapes.
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It would be really helpful if I could run a script that would reorder
the tapes in the library sequentially.  This would speed up our tape
swaps tremendously.
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Anyone out there already tried to do this?
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By the way, I'm running NBU 3.4.1
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Todd Winter
Intel Corp.
D1C Automation - Infrastructure Group
todd.winter AT intel DOT com
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an odd request but...&nbsp;Anyone know of&nbsp;a script that would sort =
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tapes in my libraries alphanumerically?&nbsp; We have several P3000 =
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load port to do them 12 at a time, so instead we open the doors to the=20
library.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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out of sequence because they fill up at different rates and get pulled =
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the library out of sequence.&nbsp; So, we end up doing this long hunt =
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routine trying to locate each of these tapes.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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helpful if I could run a script that would reorder the tapes in the =
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sequentially.&nbsp; This would speed up our tape swaps=20
tremendously.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3D"Comic Sans MS" size=3D2><STRONG>Todd=20
Winter</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><STRONG><FONT face=3D"Comic Sans MS" size=3D2>Intel=20
Corp.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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class=3D856553915-29052002>D1C </SPAN>Automation -&nbsp;<SPAN=20
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<DIV align=3Dleft><STRONG><FONT face=3D"Comic Sans MS"=20
size=3D2>todd.winter AT intel DOT 
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