list of recyclable tapes for future date

[jk04]

HI,

We are running netbackup version 7 enterprise on a centos server.

As a newbie, I know I can run vmquery to find out what tapes in scratch pool are currently available for recycling but am not sure how to get a list of tapes for a future date such as one week from now. Does netbackup provide a command to get this sort of information?

Regards,

jk04

[Kiran_Bandi]

Have you tried bpmedialist?

Displays how many volumes are at each retention level. If you want to see each media information use verbose mode.

Regards...

[Marianne]

You can also try Tape Summary report with Verbose option.

It gives an excellent report in categories - tapes due to expire in next day or two, next week, within 2 weeks, etc...

From cmd - something like:
bpmedialist -summary -v

*** EDIT ***
*** may need to add something like -U or -L   --- test with and without these options ***

[Andy_Welburn]

but in addition to the above, and again utilising bpmedialist, you could knock together a simple script to detail the tapes that are due to expire next sorted in expiry order.

We utilised something similar which I posted not so long back:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/media-return-site#comment-6445501