Tape

[visakh007]

how to check - how many scratch tapes in place

[Marianne]

In Media GUI, expand Pools, then select Scratch pool. Only scratch tapes will appear in the righ-hand screen. If you don't have a Scratch pool, sort by Assign Time. All tapes with blank Assign Time are 'scratch'.

[Genericus]

on my unix system, to list the scratch pool name:

/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmpool -list_scratch

Scratch Pools
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scratch_pool

There was a BUG with old GUI, not sure if it is still there, that if you open the window to change a pool, and check the scratch box, even if you uncheck ithe box or cancel, it can label that pool as scratch.

I run a script daily that runs the above command to determine the scratch pool, then this one to set it:

/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmpool -set_scratch scratch_pool

I do this to print out a count ( I have multiple robots, so I actually verify SCRATCHE0, and SCRATCH3-5.

SCRATCHE0=`/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery -pn scratch_pool -b | grep "ACS      0" | grep "HCART " | /usr/bin/wc -l` ## I have multiple HCART types 

echo $SCRATCHE0

I recently added this to get a count of how many tapes I used in the last 24 hours: ( my tapes have a unique prefix for each robot, robot 3 tapes start with 3 )

USED3=`/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimagelist -media -idonly -hoursago 24 | /usr/bin/grep "^3" | /usr/bin/sort -u | /usr/bin/wc -l`

This is my daily report of use for last night:

Checking for Scratch tapes in ACS0!

  There are  2226 LTO5 scratch tapes in the ACS robot scratch_pool!

  ACS0 used  40  tapes in the last 24 hours

  Checking for Scratch tapes in ACS3!

  There are  85 scratch tapes in the ACS3 robot scratch_pool!

  ACS3 used  3  tapes in the last 24 hours

  Checking for Scratch tapes in DD1!

  There are  5509 scratch tapes in the DD1 robot scratch_pool!

  DD1 used  375  tapes in the last 24 hours

  Checking for Scratch tapes in DD2!

  There are  4595 scratch tapes in the DD2 robot scratch_pool!

  DD2 used  375  tapes in the last 24 hours

  Checking for Scratch tapes in DD3!

  There are  6541 scratch tapes in the DD3 robot scratch_pool!

  DD3 used  1225  tapes in the last 24 hours

NOTE: I run this command to inventory the robots first to make sure I get updated information:

/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmupdate -rt acs -rn 0 -use_barcode_rules -h MASTER