I have a large amount of tapes that need to be expired. I know of the bpexpdate script, but everytime I use it, it takes about 5-10 minutes on each tape. Having to expire 500 tapes at that rate would cause me to rip my eyeballs out.
Basically all of the tapes in question need to have their expiration dates changed from 6 to 3 months, I understand how that is done within varitas, but it does nothing for the older tapes that need to have their expiration dates changed. I have already written a script that will expire them all using bpexpdate -ev ID_NUMBER -d 0, but as I said earlier, the amount of time required for each tape would tap the host server.
One thing I have noticed, that everytime that I expire a tape, the log file that ... logs the information about the tape grows to an exponential size. I was thinking that stopping Varitas from writing to this gigantic file would speed the process up a bit.
Thanks in Advance!
REXSTI
Basically all of the tapes in question need to have their expiration dates changed from 6 to 3 months, I understand how that is done within varitas, but it does nothing for the older tapes that need to have their expiration dates changed. I have already written a script that will expire them all using bpexpdate -ev ID_NUMBER -d 0, but as I said earlier, the amount of time required for each tape would tap the host server.
One thing I have noticed, that everytime that I expire a tape, the log file that ... logs the information about the tape grows to an exponential size. I was thinking that stopping Varitas from writing to this gigantic file would speed the process up a bit.
Thanks in Advance!
REXSTI