NB 5.1 - ejecting vault tapes to mail slots

[wallst32]

I have 4 mail slots in our libary, but need to eject more than 4 tapes from a vaulting job.

If automatic eject is used, the job will end with an error code, because it cannot eject all the tapes.

If deferred eject is used, the job will also give an error, because it still tries to eject all tapes, but obviously cannot.

If a manual eject is used, the vault job does not move the media to the correct volume group; it must be done manually afterwards.


Is there any way to have the eject process pause until mail slots are emptied and become available again?
Or any other suggestions?

TIA

 

[creakyjoe]

this is what we use to eject x amount of tapes at one sitting -

to eject the tapes - 'vmchange -res -multi_eject -w -verbose -rn 0 -rt tld -rh <hostname> -ml x:y:z' (where x:y:z are tape numbers, you can specify quite a few)

- as our loadport is set to 5 slots, the above vmchange command swaps out tapes in batches of 5, ie ejects 5, then sits on a prompt. swap in 5, then press enter, off it goes again.

to reconcile the inventory - 'vmupdate -rt tld -rn 0 -use_barcode_rules -empty_map'

Hope that helps a bit

Rich