Tape Rotation

[juda]

Once a tape expires, do I need to run the move drm * wherest=vaultret tostate=onsite

manually or does drm take care of this

 

[mikle]

As far as I know, this must be a concious command, either by script or manually executed.

 

[TaTTiCo]

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I think yes, and daily, as you can reclaim the space on tape. The DRM change from vault to vaultret for tape that match the reusedaily parameter.

 

[dchang813]

Yes, definitely. DRM only automatically moves the tapes from VAULT to VAULTRETR. It's up to you to either manually or programmatically move the tapes to ONSITERETR. I am looking for a dummy-proof GUI-based tool to do this sort of thing and figure out which tapes are where and which tapes go where. For now, I've written a program in Perl to manage our tape check-ins and check-outs, but it's not bright enough to track the delay in ordering tapes from Iron Mountain.