Well the injecting exists today, in the inventory list, click empty inport
before inventory or something like that.
And the eject from the GIU actually works on NT I think, don't hold me to
that. I can almost guarantee that it will be added to future UNIX releases.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Dwyer [mailto:dfdwyer AT tecoenergy DOT com]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 8:42 AM
To: veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu; Jacksonr AT lucent DOT com
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Using CAP/Mailslot and Netbackup 3.4
You know ... with all the interest that seems to be flying around this group
regarding injecting and ejecting more than one tape at a time through a CAP
door, it appears that those features oughta be standard issue within the
NetBackup product. Perhaps a Veritas person who monitors this list can give
us some insight as to whether that will ever happen and when (cast in Jell-O
of course). I'd hate to think as the NBU product evolves, it won't include
this capability.
Regards,
Dennis
Quote: "Time is not a test of the truth"
Translation: Just because you've always done it that way, doesn't make it
right
Dennis F. Dwyer
Enterprise Storage Manager
Tampa Electric Company
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>>> Raymond Jackson <Jacksonr AT lucent DOT com> 02/09/01 11:33AM >>>
Here's one in ksh I just finished. It works with our Sun L700
(a re-labeled StorageTek.)
I first tried using vmchange with the "-e" option, but I got
back an error indication that it wasn't supported for my library.
With the help of this list I switched to tldtest and vmupdate
and it's working nicely now.
I'm supporting a library in Colorado from here in California.
There are operators there, but they only move tapes; they
don't know anything about NBU. I first wrote a script to run
in the morning ejecting tapes based on our offsite retention
policy that emails the operators when the tapes are in the CAP.
This second script runs late in the afternoon and loads up the
replacement tapes that the operators put in the CAP during the
day. We've only been running a week with both scripts, but so
far it's looking good.
Ray
Steve Quan wrote:
>
> Yeah :) however, the only problem (for us anyway) is that it puts the
> tapes into *any* available (empty) slots, and we have a requirement for
> keeping some slots reserved for out of library recoveries etc. We script
> around "vmchange -i -rc1 <freeslotLocation> -m <volser>".
>
> I'm still looking for the command to add new tapes via the CAP. I'd hoped
> that vmadd with a "-i" would do, but I was forced to use vmadd to put in
> the database, then vmchange to inject to some free slot.
>
> /Steve
> ---
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Donaldson, Grant wrote:
>
> > With regards to auto-injecting tapes, we are utilizing the
following
> > command from within the /usr/openv/netbackup/vault/production
directory
> > that works great:
> >
> > > ./vmupdate -rn 0 -rt tld -use_barcode_rules -empty_ie
> > >
> > We are utilizing an STK 9740 Tape Library with a 14 slot CAP. I
got
> > this command from the following e-mail to this list:
> >
> >
> >
> > > From: Brian Blake[SMTP:bblake AT veritas DOT com]
> > > Sent: July 12, 2000 12:33 AM
> > > To: Henschell, John
> > > Cc: 'bpvault AT veritas DOT com'
> > > Subject: Re: New tapes not using the bar-code rule
> > > set
> > >
> > > John,
> > >
> > > If you wish to use barcode rules when injecting, you need
to
> > > do one of two
> > > things.
> > >
> > > Check out the Vault SysAdm Guide... Procedures - Misc, I
> > > believe... it
> > > describes how to modify bpinject so as to use the barcode
> > > rules.
> > >
> > > Or, you could use the following command:
> > >
> > > /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmupdate -rn <robot-number> -rt
> > > <robot-type> -empty_ie
> > > -use_barcode_rules
> > >
> > > That will empty the CAP and also use the barcode rules for
> > > any new media. This
> > > is what we will be replacing bpinject with in future
> > > versions of bpvault.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > >
> > > ----------
> > > From: RYAN ANDERSON[SMTP:RYAN_ANDERSON AT udlp DOT com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:38 PM
> > > To: David Stringer
> > > Cc: veritas-bu AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU
> > > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Using CAP/Mailslot and Netbackup 3.4
> > >
> > > David Stringer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi People,
> > > >
> > > > We are using Netbackup 3.4 and a StorageTek 9740 tape library. There
> > > > doesn't seem to be anyway through the netbackup gui to add/remove
tapes
> > > > to the library through the 12 tape CAP/mailslot on the library.
Would
> > > > there be anyscripts that would accomplish this, or is anyone aware
of
> > > > how to do it through the gui ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > David Stringer
> > > > std AT telusplanet DOT net
> > >
> > > I believe the answer you are looking for is how to simply add in tape.
> > > From Media Manager do Actions --> New --> Single Volume --> (Choose
type
> > > of media and type of library), then a new GUI will come up: Give tape
> > > the correct pool, slot, etc, then click the YES radio button for
'Inject
> > > via Mailslot?' , click 'OK' and wah-la.
> > >
> > > NOTE: Put the order of tapes you are going to add from top to bottom!
> > > The first one you add in may be tape 000001, but if HIU046 is in the
top
> > > slot, it will grab it instead.
> > >
> > > You can choose the add multiple volumes, but you then have to go back
> > > and physically add in the tapes afterwards (at least in 3.2).
Scripting
> > > the ejection of tapes is pretty easy and straightforward with:
> > >
> > > vmchange -res -m <media id> -mt dlt -e
> > >
> > > Injecting them *may* be possible (and undocumented) with vmchange, but
I
> > > don't know.
> > >
> > >
> > > RCA
> > > --
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> > > Unix Administrator | 763.572.6684 (desk)
> > > ryan_anderson AT udlp DOT com | 952.235.9936 (pager)
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