If you are on a UNIX system you might try this in your shell script to
generate a list of media IDs with which to do something:

        for TAPE in `vmquery -l -pn <Pool Name> | awk '{print $1}'` ; do
          [eject routine goes here]
        done

The eject routine could be written using the expect scripting language and
the /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/robtest utility. Your mileage may vary.

I'm sure there are other methods for doing this and I'd love to hear them.  
  

-----Original Message-----
From: James Wood [mailto:jwood AT apa.qwest DOT net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 8:17 PM
To: Veritas
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Help me, Obi-Wan. You are our only hope.


I have been reading through the manuals, but cannot see a way to do this.

Can I eject media from a robot by pool name? I wish to script/cron this, and
am drawing a blank.
I have several pools that are backed up locally, and sent off to
IronMountain daily or weekly, depending. I wish to script these tasks, and
the pools are the only constant that seems feasible. I can not do it by
client, since the clients are also backed up on another schedule and kept
locally. (Different schedules, but highly redundant anyway).

Example:
Sent off daily;
pool1 pool2 pool3 pool4

Sent off weekly;
Pool5 pool6 pool7 pool8

Sent off bi-weekly;
pool9 pool10

I want to be able to eject, preferably by robot, each pool.

eject <robot#> <pool# or ID>
prompt "Empty the hopper on $robot"

Changing this process has proven to be impossible, or at least improbable on
a Herculean level.

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