Eject tape on completion of backup job

[mkurtzhals]

Eject tape on completion of backup job.  We are using a quantum superloader 3.  We were able to do this prior with a single tape drive.  I thought i read somewhere that this is not possible with a loader but there has to be a work around.

[Ken_Putnam]

Do you want the tape just to go back to it's slot?

Or do you want the tape moved to the Export Portal?

[mkurtzhals]

I would like to eject the tape from the device.  We have a person that handles the tapes but does not have access to BE and does not know how to eject the tape from the unit itself. 

[Ken_Putnam]

You could use the BEMCMD command line utility to move the tape from the slot to the Export Portal using the

-o81 option

See the Comand Line Utility guide for details

[mkurtzhals]

I just talked to support and they said that this is not possible.  Oh well i guess

[Ken_Putnam]

I'm sure that you cannot do it as part of the job like you can with a stand-alone drive, but you can run BEMCMD from a CMD file with Windows Task Scheduler, set for after the backup job ends

Message Edited by Ken Putnam on 04-16-2008 02:48 PM