Re: [Veritas-bu] Does anyone use their own scripts to eject tapes?

I was informed of the single_cycle argument during a support call with Veritas. I believe its function is to get around the "(press <RETURN> to continue)" prompt that you referenced. I eject tapes using this command from a script regularly and our operations staff picks the tapes up from the MAP at their leisure.

toaster wrote:

Kelley, Travis wrote:
> /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmchange -res -multi_eject -rn $robotnum -rt $robottype -rh $robothost -ml $tapeid -single_cycle

Hi,

I wonder what the "single_cycle" do in your command? I've search in the man page, without finding anything related to that switch?

Usually when i do multi_eject, i do like (notice the -w, it is a must!)::
vmchange -res -multi_eject -w -verbose -rn $robotnum -rt robottype -rh robothost -ml TAPE001:TAPE001

But i do have to press CTRL-C after the "(press <RETURN> to continue)". If i press return, the tapes are put back into the library instead.

I hear that there is a way to avoid pressing CTRL-C, witch is useful in a script. But i can't remember?

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