Hey everyone. I've seen a few threads where people had the same issue that I've had - namely that the Quantum Superloader 3 doesn't allow you to automate exporting tapes. Quantum support basically told me I should have bought a higher end product and nobody else has a solution.
The short version is that they have intentionally disabled the mail slot and refuse to enable it for any reason. This is poorly documented and I doubt many people would buy these if they knew that you couldn't automate this fairly simple task - why else would you buy a robotic tape library if you still have to manually move tapes around?
Since I doubt it will ever get fixed, I did some hunting and found a bash script to issue the commands via the loader's web page, and I have taken the liberty of creating a Powershell variant for Windows. The code's not pretty as I'm not much of a programmer but it does work.
Bash script:
https://gist.github.com/mhglover/5255715
Powershell script:
https://gist.github.com/adamstadnick/49146b00022e206786777aa061905dbe
It's not perfect and it will still require you to do some Windows task scheduling and a bit of management to get things working, but it is at least possible to do this way. You'll need to put in your loader's IP, management user name and password.
My script supports PC notifications and emails if anything goes seriously wrong. You'll want to add your PC name / Email address for whoever you want to get notified of success or failure.
