Took the words right out of my mouth.

There are serveral ways to skin this cat...naturally all produce the same
result.  If you play around with tldtest you soon find that you will be able
to move your tape to you mailcap, keep track of which slots in the mail cap
are in use, etc.

Just remember if you use this method you still need to LOGICALLY remove the
media from the database.

There are a few examples through the Advanced Scripting Mail list that have
come up this week.  I'm sure one of them would fill the need (with some
modifications perhaps).

David

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU]On Behalf Of Peter L. Buschman
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:23 AM
To: Brad Fisher P70142; veritas-bu AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Using CAP/Mailslot and Netbackup 3.4



I've written scripts using 'tldtest' to eject tapes into a multi-slot cap
before.
It isn't that difficult, but you need to write code that identifies the
slot positions
of the tapes beforehand, as well as maintaining a counter as slots in the
cap
are filled.  This was my own homegrown version of bpvault.

I did this with ksh and could probably dig up the code if you're interested.
(This was a couple years ago...)

--PLB

At 03:26 PM 2/8/2001 -0700, Brad Fisher P70142 wrote:
>This is great! So what's the trick? I don't doubt you, but
>we can't seem to be able to. Also, on page 346 of the 3.4
>Media manager's sysadmin guide it specifically says you
>cannot ... then there is the statement by Veritas tech support
>today saying the same thing. I just checked the 3.2 manual ...
>page 111 says the same thing ... only one tape at a time on an
>eject.
>
>Have you written some scripts using vmchange?
>
>"McCormick, Diane S" wrote:
> >
> > both....we also can eject 24 as we have two load ports.....
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brad Fisher P70142 [mailto:p70142 AT email.mot DOT com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:16 PM
> > To: McCormick, Diane S
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Using CAP/Mailslot and Netbackup 3.4
> >
> > One at a time or twelve at a time?
>
>
>--
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