[Veritas-bu] bpduplicate

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I'm writing a script that will expire tapes greater than 30 days old and
move them into the scratch pool.  Before I do that however, I'd like to run
a test to verify that the tapes have been vaulted.  The method I've been
attempting to use in Solaris 2.7 is as follows:
 
bpduplicate -p -id ${TAPE_ID}
If the command returns
  INF - found no images or media matching the selection criteria
Then I know the tape has been duplicated.
 
That's fine one at a time, but when I script it I want to assign it to a
variable.
However, I can't seem to assign the above string to a variable.
 
for example:
VALIDATE=`bpduplicate -p -id ${TAPE_ID}`
If I echo $VALIDATE it returns nothing.
 
Does anyone know how I can get the output of bpduplicate into a variable.
If not, does anyone out there have a different way of validating that a tape
has been vaulted?
 
Thanks,
John Camara
 
 
 
 

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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=522083319-19122001>I'm writing a 
script 
that will expire tapes greater than 30 days old and move them into the scratch 
pool.&nbsp; Before I do that however, I'd like to run a test to verify that the 
tapes have been vaulted.&nbsp; The method I've been attempting to use in 
Solaris 
2.7 is as follows:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=522083319-19122001></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=522083319-19122001>bpduplicate -p -id 
${TAPE_ID}</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=522083319-19122001>If the command 
returns</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=522083319-19122001>&nbsp; INF - found 
no images or media matching the selection criteria</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=522083319-19122001>Then I know the 
tape 
has been duplicated.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=522083319-19122001></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=522083319-19122001>That's fine one at 
a 
time, but when I script it I want to assign it to a 
variable.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=522083319-19122001>However, I can't 
seem to assign the above string to a variable.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=522083319-19122001></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=522083319-19122001>for 
example:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=522083319-19122001>VALIDATE=`bpduplicate -p -id 
${TAPE_ID}`</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=522083319-19122001>If I echo $VALIDATE 
it returns nothing.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=522083319-19122001></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=522083319-19122001>Does anyone know 
how 
I can get the output of bpduplicate into a variable.&nbsp; If not, does anyone 
out there have a different way of validating that a tape has been 
vaulted?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=522083319-19122001></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=522083319-19122001>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=522083319-19122001>John 
Camara</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=522083319-19122001></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
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