Thanks.  I'll take a closer look at that. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:37 AM
> To: Brooks, Jason; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] A Better Way?
> 
> 
> The perl script I have for this runs
> 
> vmcheckxxx -rt tld -rn 0 -rh $nbu_master -h $nbu_master to 
> get the output of all tapes in the lbirary
> 
> bpimmedia -L -mediaid $media -M $nbu_master
> 
> To parse the images on each tape / then sort to find the 
> expiration of the last image and then
> 
> vmquery -m $media
> 
> To attach the volume pool.
> 
> The generated report looks something like
> 
> XX0001, OFFSITE-VAULT, 2/1/2008
> XX0002, OFFSITE-DR, 3/23/2008
> XX0003, OFFSITE-VAULT, 2/4/2008
> XX0004, OFFSITE-VAULT, 2/9/2008
> 
> Etc...
> 
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf 
> Of Brooks, Jason
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:24 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] A Better Way?
> 
> I'm working on our scripting that automates some NBU 
> functions.  One thing we currently do is keep a list of 
> exported tapes (don't use vault and do our own offsite 
> storage).  One thing I'm looking at doing is appending the 
> Volume Pool to the tape barcode in the file.  That way, we 
> can make sure all the usual suspects are running.
> 
> >From what I know and what I've found, the only way to do this is with
> vmquery -m MEDIAID.  The output, however, is not what I'm looking for.
> I can work around it, but is there a terser output that 
> anyone knows of?
> Or another way to get the pool for a particular tape?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> ------------
> Jason Brooks
> Computer Systems Engineer
> IITS - Longwood University
> voice - (434) 395-2034
> fax - (434) 395-2035
> mailto:<brooksje AT longwood DOT edu> 
> 

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