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Re: [Veritas-bu] Automating NBU ejects w/vmchange - Solaris

2009-12-18 14:18:20
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Automating NBU ejects w/vmchange - Solaris
From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com>
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:18:12 +0000
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 02:01:02PM -0500, fullejn wrote:
> 
> I am currently using this one-liner to eject all tapes from a list. It works 
> in that I can build a tape list and save me the headache of entering tape # 
> by tape #, but I still have the aggravation of having to interact with the 
> command as it prompts me to confirm every eject with a keystroke.
> 
> Does anyone know a way to bypass this so I don't have to sit in front of the 
> terminal hitting the enter key all day?
> 
> for line in $(cat ./1); do vmchange -res -multi_eject -w -verbose -rn 1 -rt 
> tld -rh backup1 -vh backup1 -ml $line; done

What version?  For 6 and up, you can add -single_cycle and it spits out
some extra information, but doesn't require interaction.

Use that term in a search and you can see a few old threads about it.
-- 
Darren
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