dale AT daleking DOT org wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>The available_media script in /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies is a dog
>
>for sites with a large number of tapes.
>I've rewritten this script in perl for performance and was wondering if
>anyone who uses the veritas version would like to test it.
>
>On our system ~1400 carts the veritas version takes ~55 minutes.  This
>version takes ~12 seconds and emulates the output, including the -summary
>option.
>
>Things to note:
>       - added -size option to display data sizes in Ki/Mi/Gi
>       - added -pool= to only show a specific pool name
>       - added WARNING lines if multiple mediaids are found in the MM
>         (remove or filter these lines if you depend on the output
>         format)
>       - my perl is weak - please submit improvements after which I'll
>         make it generally available somewhere else
>       - only tested with nbu 4.5 under AIX
>       - don't forget to update the script with the location of perl
>         on your system 
>
>I hope someone finds this useful.
>
>- Dale
>  
>
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>

Nice piece of work.

On NBU 5.x, bpmedialist does not recognize the "-ev" option.  In 4.5,  
it looks like the output
is the same with or without the "-ev" as I think normally that option 
takes a media id argument.
The new option is "-m".

Thanks
Peter