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H_Sharma's avatar
H_Sharma
Level 6
10 years ago

Scratch Media

Hello Experts, I need to know about the scratch media. We had 10 media in the morning and in the evening we had 2. So just need to know how can we know how many media were in the morning on ...
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  • RonCaplinger's avatar
    RonCaplinger
    10 years ago

    Run a report on the scratch tape quantity every day at the same time, and keep track of how many new scratch tapes you add into the library.  There's no report of how many tapes were used by NetBackup in the OpsCenter reports.  NetBackup doesn't always fill every tape until it is full, so you can't really use the tape full indication that a new scratch tape was used.

    Is there a particular reason you need to know this?  We might be able to offer alternative advice if we know what you are trying to do.

RonCaplinger's avatar
RonCaplinger
Level 6
10 years ago

This is the command we use in our Linux script to monitor scratch tapes on a daily basis:

      /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery -pn NB_Scratch -b |grep 'TLD      0' | grep 'HCART3' | wc -l

I believe the Windows "find" command is similar to "grep", not sure if there is an equivalent for the "wc" (wordcount) command.