Re: Select a tape in a TS2900 magazine programmatically -- MIDRANGE-L

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Late to the party here but if you've home-grown your own backup, there is no 'secret' to loading a tape. You don't even need M&SE.

Simply using the TAPMLBnn device, the tape specified in the VOL parameter is loaded. No matter what volume is currently in the drive is moved out and the volume you've requested is moved in.

Of course you need to know that tape is available but you can retrieve the list of volumes using an API as already mentioned.

- DrF

On 11/22/2024 12:38 PM, Buck Calabro 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.

My budget is $0.00 and whatever time I can find while eating lunch at my desk. BRMS is not an option.

Thanks!

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