In regard to: Re: [Networker] Automated Tape Loading/Unloading, Darren...:

       What I would like is the ability to unload a batch of tapes from
the library that is greater than the capacity of my load port.

I have (withdraw only, not deposit).  I've recently received permission to
share all my NetWorker-related scripts under a GPL license, but I haven't
had time to package them up or even clean up some of the scary areas in
the code.  :-|

my $num_slots_in_loadport = 14;

        if ($volumes_moved_to_loadport == $num_slots_in_loadport) {
                print "$0: Exiting, we've filled the loadport\n";
                exit(0);
        }

It looks to me that this doesn't unload more tapes than the capacity of
the load port.

That's correct -- it exits when the cap is full.  I would just keep
running it with the same file, until all tapes listed in that file have
been withdrawn.

I've never written a script to do just that, but I would imagine you'd
run something like the above to fill the CAP, then run sjirdtag or
similar in a loop to see when the port has been emptied.  Once you see
it empty, continue withdrawing volumes.

That would be a big improvement, but even doing something like:

for i in 1 2 3 4
do
       ./nsr_batch_withdraw.pl --file file_with_tape_names
       sleep 60
done

from the shell prompt has been enough to meet my needs.

Tim
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