Erase all tapes script?

[danielparker]

Hi,

I have a Dell TL4000 Tape Library, and I thought I would have a play with PBS with it.. All of my tapes have been used by Bacula in the past, so I have to erase them prior to labeling them. I have not found a way to erase all tapes from the GUI.. so I was hoping someone has written a script that they could share to automate this process?

Thanks in advance.

Daniel

 

[davlaw]

its dirty messy, but its what I use when I have to. Maybe others have a more elegant solution. Looking , I think it first revinds, writes weof, goes off line

Anyway I have to edit it each time for what I do since I have several libraries I have worked with.

the line for i in # # # # # #, would be the slots the tapes are in, so below tapes 1-6 are done in squence
if you where to do the whole libary, 1 2 3 so on 29 30

As a matter of fact I found this when working with bareos, a cousin, sister, brother of backula

#!/bin/sh

#LIBRARYB="scsi-1ADIC_A0C0316328_LLA"
LIBRARYB="scsi-ADICA0C0607908_LLA"
#DRIVE="scsi-3
#DRIVE="1"
#DRIVEPHY="scsi-F09C7CF004-nst"
DRIVE="0"
DRIVEPHY="scsi-F09C7CF000-nst"
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6
  do
echo $i
#mtx -f /dev/tape/by-id/$LIBRARYB inquiry
mtx -f /dev/tape/by-id/$LIBRARYB status
#mtx -f /dev/tape/by-id/$LIBRARYB load $i /dev/tape/by-id/$DRIVE
mtx -f /dev/tape/by-id/$LIBRARYB load $i $DRIVE
echo "rewind "
mt -f /dev/tape/by-id/$DRIVEPHY rewind
echo "weof "
mt -f /dev/tape/by-id/$DRIVEPHY weof
echo "rewoffi "
mt -f /dev/tape/by-id/$DRIVEPHY rewoffl
mtx -f /dev/tape/by-id/$LIBRARYB unload $i $DRIVE
done
exit 0

 

[DocCyblade]

Found this post and the above script snippet. I took that idea and created a script that quick formates all the tapes based on a label prefix. Link to that thread below

Script: Quick format all tapes in library

 

[dcsapak]

just fyi, pbs comes with the 'pmt' and 'pmtx' tools which are basically rust rewrites of mt and mtx, but are pbs config aware, so you can use the configured drive/changer name

 

[DocCyblade]

just fyi, pbs comes with the 'pmt' and 'pmtx' tools which are basically rust rewrites of mt and mtx, but are pbs config aware, so you can use the configured drive/changer name

Awesome! I was not aware of that. I will be updating and testing the script with these. Thank you

 

[DocCyblade]

just fyi, pbs comes with the 'pmt' and 'pmtx' tools which are basically rust rewrites of mt and mtx, but are pbs config aware, so you can use the configured drive/changer name

So I tried to use pmtx with the use of PROXMOX_TAPE_DRIVE and it works with status command, but when trying to use it with the load command, just does not want to work. Tried using the --device and --changer options and just keeps giving me the help prompts. Its strange it works with status command, but not the load. The sub commands transfer works fine. I ended up using the proxmox-tape command. Will be updating my post later today once fully tested

 

[dcsapak]

can you post the exact commands you entered? maybe it's a bug?

 

[DocCyblade]

Updated my

can you post the exact commands you entered? maybe it's a bug?

Will post a new thread. Thanks