Frozen tape question

[mikedaruke]

Hi, Is there a way to identify when a media has been frozen? I see bpmedialist but does that give me the date when it was frozen? I know I can browse the logs but that takes forever.

Basically what I am trying to do is write a script to tell me what tapes where frozen the day before. so basically I dont want the tape to appear on my report every day, only once. So if the tape is frozen on a Monday it should be on Mondays report, not Tuesday as well.

Any ideas? Easy ways?

 

[Stumpr]

run the script called available_media and check its output. You should be able to do some scripting around it. You will find it in the ...bin/goodies folder(windows) or directory(unix)

Bob Stump
Just because the VERITAS documentation states something as certain, that does not make it a fact and that is truth.

 

[mikedaruke]

I dont have permission to run that, do you know what commands it runs?

 

[Stumpr]

google for available_media
I know there are some adapted scripting out there in the user communities. I wish you well.

Bob Stump
Just because the VERITAS documentation states something as certain, that does not make it a fact and that is truth.

 

[mikedaruke]

I wonder if I can use the last mount date.

I mean it has to be mounted in order to be frozen no?

I dont care about time as much as date

 

[Stumpr]

Here are a couple of threads that you may get some useful scriptting ideas that I found right here in good ol' Tek-Tips

Frozen tapes

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=648445

How to "Unfreeze" tape ?

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=904623

Bob Stump
Just because the VERITAS documentation states something as certain, that does not make it a fact and that is truth.