Conference decwet::networker

405.0. "nsrjb -w on TL812 NSR 4.2A ?" by YORIC::HARRISR () Thu Feb 13 1997 23:34

    
    
    	Hello,
    
    
    	A customer of mine has just implemented a TL812 / NSR 4.2A solution
    	on Digital Unix 3.2G.
    
    
    	To meet the backup policy requirements they are required to 
    	remove the nightly backup tapes and send them offsite the 
    	following morning.  I advised them verbally that they should be
    	able to write a cron job to unload the four TZ88's to the 
    	LOAD/UNLOAD hopper using "nsrjb -w ..."
    
    	
    	They have rung back and said the "nsrjb -w AFZ206" will withdraw
    	the fisrt tape but any further commands complain that the
    	destination resource is full.  Any "nsrjb -w -D x AFZ207"
    	where x has been 0,1,2, 49,50,51,52 fails with the "-D" 
    	flag being invalid/set wrong.
    
    	
    	I would have thought that the destination -D could be set to 
    	0-3 for the 4 UNLOAD/LOAD bins so that all four tapes could 
    	be removed automagically?
    
    	
    	Likewise can the withdraw command be issued with a -f and specify
    	a /dev/rmt?h device, my NSR system is 3.2 and it does not list
    	-f as an option with -w, however I vaguely thought V4.2A did?
     
    	
    
    	V3.2 man entry...
    
    	nsrjb -w [ -j name ] [ -v ] [ -S slots ] [ -D port ] [ volume name]
    
    
    
    
    	Many Thanks 
    
    	Richard Harris
    	Brisbane, Australia
    	
    	

One must specify the target port (-D) destination for each
withdraw (-w) command.  It won't take a range.

My 4.2A nsrjb command shows (don't see a -f):

nsrjb -w [ -j name ] [ -v ] [ -S slot ] [ -P port ] [ volume name ]

	The V3.2 man page was in error.  The command was changed 
	during development for Legato compatibility to use the 
	-P flag for the port address.  We missed fixing the man page.

	They will need to use individual commands specifing each port in
	sequence, one per tape.

	The -S command does take a range but this does not work with
	the TL810 since it does not have an output stacker like the 
	TL820.

	Tapes can not be moved from the drive to the I/O ports by
	NetWorker, they must be unloaded from the drive into a storage
	slot and then exported.

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