vmquery should be able to do this.  Empty tapes, ready for reuse, will have
an "Assigned time" (field 20 in the wide output) of "00/00/0000".  The
vmquery command will also accept a pool-name as a limiter in the output.

So something like:

vmquery -pn <poolname> | awk 'NR>3 && $3!~/CLN/ && $20~/00.00.00/ {print
$1}'

(the third field restriction keeps it from identifying cleaning tapes,
although the poolname would probably take care of that... the "NR" check
just skips the header on the output)

-M

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Martinsen
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 3:52 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Cc: Espen Martinsen
Subject: [Veritas-bu] tapes ready for backup


hi,
   How can i on a command-line
    list which tapes are ready to be used for backup in
    a specific pool. that is, which tape has only backups with 
    retension-periods that is expired?


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