Multiple scanner commands

[TDun]

Possibly a daft question.
Is it possible to run multiple scanner commands on one server (e.g. 4 tape drives, run scanner against 4 tapes at once)?

TIA

 

[Novelli]

Hi,

here is a Shell Script example for it

#!/usr/bin/bash
#
# Usage: scandrives.sh drive [drive, drive, ...]
#
# e.g. scandrives.sh 0cbn 1cbn 2cbn
#
# This would scan /dev/rmt/0cbn /dev/rmt/1cbn and /dev/rmt/2cbn
#

if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then echo "Usage: $0 drive [drive, drive, ...]"; exit 1 ; fi

DRIVES=$*

echo "NB: You are about to start a \"scanner -n\" on the following drives:"

for d in $DRIVES ; do
echo /dev/rmt/${d} output written to ${d}.scan
done
echo -n "Proceed? (Y/N): "
read answer
if [ X$answer != "XY" ]; then exit 1 ; fi

# We proceed from here ...

for d in $DRIVES ; do
echo "nohup scanner -vvv -n /dev/rmt/${d} >${d}.scan 2>&1"
nohup scanner -vvv -n /dev/rmt/${d} >${d}.scan 2>&1 &
done

wait

echo Completed


Cheers Novelli
Novell Master CNE + CDE

http://www.eckertweb.de

 

[TDun]

Thanks, I was only interested in if it was ok to do.
I'll be running it on Windows, but am now scripting it.

Cheers,
TDun