The algorithm for selecting media is described in Appx C of the NBU
Sys Admin Guide.

But you don't want to try to guess what it's going to use.  You just
want to make sure it has enough usable tapes available to get the job
done.  Try out the available_media script in
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies.


Sandeep Mehta writes:
> 
> Hi Backup guru's,
>                  We are running Veritas Netbackup DataCenter 3.4  on
> Solaris 7 environment, We hv  backup drive,  Quantum ATL P1000 which has
> 2 Drives, one dedicated for Netfiler to take NDMP , another drive is
> configure for Veritas clients backup. Drive has 16 slots for tape. Is
> there is a way by which I can know which all tapes will be used for
> tomorrow means schedule for today night, it may be simple but I am new
> to this field, also if somebody has shell script which will helpful pls
> share with me .The purpose of this to remove the unused tapes from slot
> and put ew tapes in to slot and configure those new tapes in to Scratch
> pool.....
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance 
> Sandeep 
> 
> 
> 
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