Just to be offsited. I have 18 slots in the mailslot that I need to 
fill. It gets filled about 3 times weekly to pull on one day of the week.

I have a list of tapes I get via our own method and I just use vmquery 
to find out where the tapes are.

Donaldson, Mark wrote:
> Is your intention to pull these tapes to make room for new ones?
> 
> I'd suggest FULL, FROZEN, or SUSPENDED.  All conditions where no more data
> will be appended to the tape.
> 
> I have a unix shell script that does this if you want.
> 
> -M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Enestvedt [mailto:William.Enestvedt AT jwu DOT edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:21 PM
> To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] pain in the Robtest!
> 
> 
> John Gee wrote:
> 
>>You can also echo your commands into tl8test. Here's an example...
>>
>>echo "s d" | tl8test -r /dev/sg/<path to the robotic device file>
>>
>>just replace your commands with the ""'s for what you want to occur
>>
> 
>    So this is very cool, but can I do something similar (like piping "s
> s" to robtest in order to show a tape library's contents) on the
> _Master_ Server with tldtest?
>    Is there in fact some comletely other command I can use to show the
> contents of my various Media Servers' tape libraries from the Master
> Server's command line? I find the NBU commands so steep and ugly that I
> tend to get lost among bpemdialist and bpcllist...
>    I'm trying to write a script to show me tapes that are both FULL and
> in a tape library. It would be nice if the script ran on the Master
> Server instead of on the multiple Media Servers just to keep down the
> number of diffent reports I read (and scripts to keep in sync).
>    Thanks in advance.
> -wde
> --
> Will Enestvedt
> UNIX System Administrator
> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
> 
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