[Veritas-bu] URGENT AND HELP Quickest Way to Freeze Tapes

Not sure how awk and a for x loop are gonna work on windows unless you
are running cygwin or something similar.

D

ckstehman AT pepco DOT com wrote:
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> Those commands work on Windows.  You need to login as administrator on
> the media server
> that knows about the tape and go to the
> D:\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd directory .
> You can run the same commands as unix from that directory on the
> windows server.
> Note this is for Netbackup 5.1 or earlier, on 6.0 it will be different.
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> *Dave Markham <dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net>*
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> 05/12/2006 10:24 AM
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>       Re: [Veritas-bu] URGENT AND HELP Quickest Way to Freeze Tapes
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> arr ok.
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> Also i just realized you are windows aint ya :) so my unix stuff wouldnt
> work anyway
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> D
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> WEAVER, Simon wrote:
> > Dave
> > Thanks - in fact I done it a while ago now - using the manual
> method, but it
> > did not take as long as I expected :-)
> >
> > Thanks anyhow
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Simon Weaver
> > 3rd Line Technical Support
> > Windows Domain Administrator
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Markham [mailto:dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net]
> > Sent: 12 May 2006 14:25
> > To: WEAVER, Simon
> > Cc: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] URGENT AND HELP Quickest Way to Freeze Tapes
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> >
> > If its all tapes in your robot id do something on command line for a
> loop.
> >
> > Off top of my head id do :-
> >
> > echo "s s" | /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tldtest -r <path to robot. e.g
> > /dev/sg/c3t0l0> |awk '/Barcode/ {print $NF} |xargs bpmedia -freeze -m
> >
> > If that dont work take off the | xargs bpmedia -freeze -m and do :-
> >
> > echo "s s" | /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tldtest -r <path to robot. e.g
> > /dev/sg/c3t0l0> |awk '/Barcode/ {print $NF} >/tmp/list
> >
> > for x in `cat /tmp/list`
> > do
> > bpmedia -freeze -m $x
> > done
> >
> >
> > Then you will have to press y a few times :)
> >
> > Hope this helps and theres probably an easier way
> >
> >
> >
> > WEAVER, Simon wrote:
> >  
> >> */Guys/*
> >> */Have 137 Tapes in my Robot I need to freeze VERY quickly in
> >> preperation for new media./*
> >> *//*
> >> */apart from bpmedia -freeze is there anything in the gui that will
> >> allow me to freeze all tapes or all tapes in a volume?/*
> >> *//*
> >> */thanks/*
> >>  
> >>
> >> /Regards/
> >>
> >> /Simon Weaver
> >> *3rd Line Technical Support
> >> Windows Domain Administrator*/
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