Command to eject used tapes from library?

Question

Hi,

i need to find out the command to eject the used tapes from the tape library and put them in the library mail slots (easily accessible) for a given period.

eventually it will end up in script but first things first i need to get the legato command working in the command prompt.

this is a little bit above my knowledge base so any help would be appreciated.

the pool is "3months", library is "PV136T", and the backup type is "level5"

to start of with just do the tapes from last nights backup 1 day ago

anyone knowledgable on this type of thing?

ble1 · Answer

Command to do that is nsrjb. Recently there has been tread on this subject too so I would suggest to read it.

Andrew16 · Answer

thanks for thati think i have missed an important point that makes things difficult.we want the tapes ejected without knowing what they are.without looking to see tape volumes used etc....that command ejects the tapes yes, but not sure if it will allow to used tapes from 1 day ago to be ejected.

ble1 · Answer

You could create list of volumes based on what tapes you wish to eject with mminfo command. Then use nsrjb command to eject those tapes.

Andrew16 · Answer

yes i think i am getting some where

i have used mminfo and i have a text file called tapes_eject.txt

this is the used tapes

i just need to do a nsrjb command to eject them without having to specify the actual names but the contents of the text file instead?

Andrew16 · Answer

i'm using windowsmminfo -av -q 'pool=3MONTHS, savetime>= 1 days ago, location=PV136T' -r volume > 'e:\scripts\slots_eject.txt'this command gives my tapes used the previous night in the text file 'slots_eject.txt'i'm happy with this.How can i do a nsrjb command to look at this text file and eject those tapes, is that possible?

Danne-Murphy · Answer

I use this command to read a file in Windows to eject tapes.for /f %%I in (f:\scripts\eject_tapes.txt) do nsrjb -w -N %%I

vsemaska · Answer

The nsrjb command doesn't accept files as input so you'd still have to write a script to read the file and execute the unload and withdraw commands for each volume. I've never written scripts in Windows so I can't help you there.

Vic

vsemaska · Answer

As far as I know mminfo won't tell you which tapes in the '3months' pool are in the tape library. The thing I would do is parse the output from nsrjb. Something like this (assuming you're running Unix/Linux):

for volnme in $(nsrjb -s PV136T | grep ' 3months ' | awk '{print $4}')
do
echo "Press when mail slots are empty:\c"
read inp
nsrjb -u -s PV136T $volnme
nsrjb -w -s PV136T $volnme
done

Message was edited by:
Victor Semaska

Andrew16 · Answer

thanks for thatfor /f %%I in (e:\scripts\slots_eject.txt) do nsrjb -w -N %%Ii get the error %%I was unexpected at this timedo you know what that means?

Danne-Murphy · Answer

if you are doing it from command line it should be

for /f %I in (f:\scripts\eject_tapes.txt) do nsrjb -w -N %I

In bat file, command is for /f %%I in (f:\scripts\eject_tapes.txt) do nsrjb -w -N %%I

See help in windows for for command fo more info.

ble1 · Answer

As far as I know mminfo won't tell you which tapes inthe '3months' pool are in the tape library. It will if you use location field pointing towards library name.

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Command to eject used tapes from library?

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