On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Dave Markham wrote:

> Netbackup 5.0MP7 Solaris9
>
> Anyone know how to identify from command line what drives are in use, or
> what tapes are in use while a job is running.
>
> We have an issue where ops keep opening the jukebox and changing tapes
> while jobs are running. The job is fine as the L700 library just
> suspends writes but the problem is they fill slots up which are
> destination slots of tapes in use. Once the tapes have finished and a
> new tape is required to continue the job the old tape cannot be put back
> into its slot as it has some tape in it.
>
> I therefore sometimes need to manually move the tapes to another slot
> using robtest. Issue is a lot of the time the backup job is still
> running and i dont want to unload the tapes in use so i need to identify
> them.
>
> I have been using iostat -xnd 2 10 |grep rmt and seeing which are
> written to and then double checking with the gui the tape ids, but i'd
> like a nice netbackup command to just say tapes being written to at that
> moment in time.
>
> Cheers
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How to see what drives are in use? vmoprcmd -d ds
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