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[Veritas-bu] Changing catalog tapes out from command line

2004-08-19 13:16:06
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Changing catalog tapes out from command line
From: jamesp AT hisser DOT org (James Pattinson)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:16:06 +0100
Hi

This is very simple:

# bpsyncinfo -id1 CAT001 -d1 hcart -id2 CAT002 -d2 hcart

or of course, just half the options to specify only one tape.

James

Catlin, Brian wrote:
> I am working on a tape rotation script. We are using NetBackup on 
> solaris - mp4 talking to a StorageTek L700 library
>  
> I have the basic rotation working nicely, but am having difficulty in 
> figuring out how to change out the catalog tape.  In the gui you can 
> reconfigure the catalog settings, setting two different tapes to use.  I 
> figuerd out how to select the active catalog tapes, but am having 
> difficulty in figuring out how to tell the Master/Media servers to 
> change one id (that I'm ejecting) to another that I specify as available 
> in the NetBackup pool.
>  
> The last piece I need is to make sure the media inventory is up to date 
> - haven't figured that one out either.
> Any ideas?
> thanks,
> BC
> 
> ======================================
> Brian D. Catlin - Unix Administrator
> US LEC of North Carolina
> bcatlin AT uslec DOT com <mailto:bcatlin AT uslec DOT com>
> ======================================
> 
>  


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