Tapes do not normally SUSPEND when they're removed from the library.
That'll be a condition specific to your offsite routines.

Not Frozen and scheduled to expire soon is about as close as you can get.
To automate this, it'd be a query through bpmedialist.

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 2:34 PM
To: Hindle, Greg
Cc: List Veritas List
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Expansion bay for L700


On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:13:38PM -0400, Hindle, Greg wrote:
> Yes. Sorry I was not clear. I have empty slots in the L700 that I want
> to fill with blank/scratch tapes. I want to get a list of the tapes in
> the library room where our offsite tapes are stored that are blank or
> have expired so they can be added back into the L700. I have some new
> tapes that will go in but not enough to fill 300 slots.

How about:

To get a list of all of your scratch tapes, assuming the pool name is
"Scratch", do:

# vmquery -pn Scratch 
Find those tapes that are non-robotic.

Also, to report on the tapes and when they expire, do:
# bpmedialist -h ALL -summary 
 
You're looking for the tapes that are SUSPENDED and will expire soon.
This close enough?

-- 
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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