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[Veritas-bu] Help! How to force an inventory update after loa ding tapes into a library?

2005-08-23 17:29:04
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Help! How to force an inventory update after loa ding tapes into a library?
From: Ying.Xu AT telecheck DOT com (Xu, Ying)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:29:04 -0500
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We have5  L700 libraries.  We have vmupdate run via cron daily which backups
are active.  No issues.

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From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Tim Hoke
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:57 PM
To: dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; smpt; Richard Hellier
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Help! How to force an inventory update after
loading tapes into a library?

Out of curiosity, does it run while backups are active?  If so, do you
encounter problems?  What kind of library?

-Tim
On Aug 23, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Dave Markham wrote:

>
>
> I myself have this in a script which updates netbackup inventory 
> regularly.
>
> vmupdate -x -rn 0 -rt tld -rh `uname -n` -vh `uname -n` 
> -use_barcode_rules
>
> I check the process works with $? and send emails to ops if it fails.
>
> Hope this helps
>
>
>
> smpt wrote:
>
>> Look at 5.0 Media Manager System Administrator's Guide for unix at 
>> page 340 and at 5.0 Media Manager System Administrator's Guide for 
>> windows at page 322 or at yours version manuals.
>>
>> just put the entry AUTO_UPDATE_ROBOT to vm.conf
>>
>> It isn't working for all robots stefanos
>>
>>
>> -------Original Message-------
>>
>>> From: Richard Hellier <richard_hellier AT hotmail DOT com>
>>> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Help! How to force an inventory update after 
>>> loading tapes into a library?
>>> Sent: 18 Aug '05 09:38
>>>
>>> Folks,
>>> I have my ATL P3000 DLT library set so that it automatically empties 
>>> tapes from the load port into the storage slots.
>>> What I'd like to do is automate the step of updating the robot 
>>> inventory.
>>> I'm sure I recall someone here mentioning a "magic filename" that 
>>> you create in the conf directory (?) whose presence signals to N/B 
>>> that it should do the update itself.
>>> Anyone know how to do this, please?
>>> Thanks!
>>> Richard.
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