automatically unmounting a tape 1

[tood]

Hi,

I'm running Networker 6.2 on win2k sp2 with a Overland Data autochanger. I would like the tape to automatically eject from the drive back into the autochanger after completing a backup. I see under the properties of the antochanger there are several features that can be selected. Under "jukebox features" there are entries like autoeject, auto_cc_unload and cc_eject. Also under "Class Reset" there is initialize unload, intitialize eject and unload initialize. I have tried some of these alone and in combinations but with no results the help feature is not very helpful neither is the administrator handbook.

This should be a basic feature (but I'm obviously missing it), without it automatically unloading it creates an extra job everyday of connecting to the networker server and manually unmounting the last tape before having to go to the autochanger and swapping the current days tapes into it (if I do an unload from the autochanger itself the autochanger in Networker needs resetting). Before moving to Networker a month ago I was running this autochanger off an NT server running arcserve 6.61. Under arcserve in the backup job there was an option to unload the media after the backup and this worked fine.

tood

 

[cia]

Hi Tood,

To my knowledge there are no GUI based way to do this , you have to compose a simple script to do this.

/cia

 

[Chapter11]

cia is right. it's easy to do though. Schedule a task to run "nsrjb -u" at a particular time every day, and there you go.

 

[tood]

Thanks, this works nicely.

Tood

 

[jkalbus]

There is a way to unload tapes after backups - well after no backup is writing to it anymore.

If you set Idle device timeout to 1 - the tape gets unloaded after one minute of inactivity.

We have it set to 10 minutes - the default setting - and it works fine.

Johanes

 

[tood]

Hi Jkalbus,

Thanks for your response. I took a look at my idle device timeout setting and it is already set to 10, so enabled. I looked at the help function of this and it says that the idle device timeout only apply's to SmartMedia, Silo and shared native jukeboxes with device share enabled.

Thanks.
Tood