Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] A Better Way?

2007-07-03 10:56:52
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] A Better Way?
From: Wayne T Smith <wts AT maine DOT edu>
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:29:30 -0400
Rather than mess with volume labels, why not use one of the fields that 
"Vault" would have used?

Even using the tape description field would be better than messing with 
the bar code field ... but maybe I don't understand what you're trying 
to do.

cheers, wayne

Brooks, Jason wrote, in part,  on 2007-07-03 9:24 AM:
> 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
>
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