Hi, How can I use one-line command to list all currently available tapes in a specific pool? Thank you much in advance.

is to take a copy of the "available_media" script & amend it such that you are only looking at a specific volume pool as opposed to all volume pools. Tried this on UNIX & only needs a change to one line to facilitate this: $VMPOOL -listall -b 2>/dev/null | tail +3 | sort +0 1>$VMPOOL_OUTPUT 2>/dev/null to $VMPOOL -listall -b | grep your_pool_name 2>/dev/null 1>$VMPOOL_OUTPUT 2>/dev/null or you could make it more generic & put an input statement for the pool name of your choice. @Marianne - thanks for putting me straight! Confusion reigned on my side between AVAILABLE and ACTIVE!

One command to List all available tapes in a pool?

12 Replies

Will_Restore
Level 6
14 years ago
available_media script in the goodies directory
Andy_Welburn
Level 6
14 years ago
bpmedialist -p pool_name
Mark_Solutions
Level 6
14 years ago
An easy way is to create a command or batch file that runs the available_media command (netbackup\bin\goodies\) and greps the output you need

Equivalent can be done for Windows or Unix based systems

Or maybe the available_media command is what you are looking for anyway?

Hope this helps
thesunlover
Level 4
14 years ago
Thank you both first!

available_media lists all tapes available in all pools. Can it list available tapes only in a specific pool?

bpmedialist -p pool_name lists all tapes in a specific pool, but it contains both available tapes and FULL tapes.

How can I just list available tapes in a specific pool?
thesunlover
Level 4
14 years ago
I think the following commands will do the job - list all available tapes in a specific pool. What do you guys think? Of course there are 3 commands here, not just one.

# /opt/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery -pn NetBackup -bx | awk '{print $1}' > /tmp/file1
# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/available_media | grep AVAILABLE | grep NONE | awk '{print $1}' > /tmp/file2
# perl -ne 'print if ($seen{$_} .= @ARGV) =~ /10$/' /tmp/file1 /tmp/file2
Mark_Solutions
Level 6
14 years ago
Hi

you probably need a little vbs script that pipes out whatever is listed between two pool names

So you run the available_media command to see where the pool you are intersted lies and then, for example, pipe out everything from "DataStore" to "NetBackup"

Shouldnt be too difficult (he says optimisticly)
Mark_Solutions
Level 6
14 years ago
thesunlover dropped his reply in whilst i was typing and is just what i was getting at - if you are on Windows then this is similar to what is needed on your VBS or batch file to get a similar result
Will_Restore
Level 6
14 years ago
thesunlover using Windows ?!?
thesunlover
Level 4
14 years ago
Our NetBackup is under Solaris.

I've just realized that 'bpmedialist -p pool_name' won't work for this purpose, because it only lists tapes currently in the Robot, right? I need to find all available tapes in a specifc pool on the shelf.

The 3 commands above should be working for this purpose, although it is not very simple.
Marianne
Level 6
14 years ago
bpmedialist will only list assigned media, regardless of location.