Re: Select a tape in a TS2900 magazine programmatically

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You’re looking for Media and Storage Extensions (no longer extra $$).   With that you’ll be able to write a tape handler.   You can of course do it yourself but the trick is the registry point for tape handlers.   


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

> On Nov 22, 2024, at 11:38 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm looking at revising our homegrown backup process. We have a TS2900 LTO7 autoloader/drive. The web GUI works great for moving a tape to and from the magazine and drive. I'd like to do the same thing in a program.
>
> I looked at the APIs for tape, and while I can use QTARTLBL to get the volume ID of the tape in the drive, I don't see a way to move tapes from the magazine to the drive. I know that BRMS does it, but I can't find the appropriate API.
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> My budget is $0.00 and whatever time I can find while eating lunch at my desk. BRMS is not an option.
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> Thanks!
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