unfreeze tapes

[Ashz_Tomz]

Hi

How do i unfreeze a set of tapes on a media server i presently use

bpmedia -unfreeze -m mediaID -h (media_servers) i am doing unfrezzing tapes individually

i have the following media id : tn0001,tn0002 on same media server . How to unfreeze both these tapes at the same time with the command .. Any other way ?

regards

Ashish

[Stumpr2]

bpmedia by itself can only interact with an individual media. However you could place the bpmedia command within a for loop.

[PraveenChollang]

1. copy the list of tapes to excel sheet.

2. write command to unfreeze media.

   bpmedia -unfreeze -m X1 -h <media_server>

   bpmedia -unfreeze -m X2 -h <media_server>

   bpmedia -unfreeze -m X3 -h <media_server>

NOTE: you can unfreeze tapes on different media servers on single run.

3. copy all the command llist to a batch file and execute it.

4. this takes 2 mins to prepare and 2 mins to execute.

you can expire n number of tapes at a time.

Regards,

Praveen Chollangi

[Ashz_Tomz]

give me the proper syntax for unfreezing multiple tapes ..

[PraveenChollang]

Please follow the below steps...

Firstly understand that there is no single command to unfreeze multiple tapes. we are just running same command multiple times.

1. Take the list of frozen tapes.

2. Copy the list to an excel sheet.

3. prepare normal command to unfreeze.

Example:

a) column A: bpmedia -unfreeze -m

b) Column B: <mediaID>

c) column C: -h <Media_server>

so if u paste row 1 it looks like: bpmedia -unfreeze -m <mediaID> -h <Media_server>

4. paste all the list of tapes in column B and copy the command to all the rows.

5. Then copy all the commands to a new text file and save the file with extension .bat.

6. Run this file to expire all the tapes in a moment.

[Stumpr2]

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adad egty wrote:
give me the proper syntax for unfreezing multiple tapes ..

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give me?

sigh...

# cat > /tmp/medialist
media01
media02
media03
^D

# for i in `cat /tmp/medialist`

> do

> echo $i

> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedia -unfreeze -m $i -h <hostname>

> done

[Nathan_Kippen]

Kinda demanding are we adad egty?  What happened to please and thank you?

nk

[Ashz_Tomz]

Thanks a lot Guys ....Its worked ...

[Stumpr2]

You are welcome.