https://github.com/kakwa/tapemgr-124t
Utilities and library to manage a Dell PowerVault 124-t from command line
https://github.com/kakwa/tapemgr-124t
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Utilities and library to manage a Dell PowerVault 124-t from command line
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/kakwa/tapemgr-124t
- Owner: kakwa
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-06-09T13:45:28.000Z (about 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-06-10T05:55:11.000Z (about 10 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-30T19:49:55.441Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: dell, lto, powervault, tape
- Language: Perl
- Size: 133 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
tapemgr-124t
============
Utilities and library to manage a Dell PowerVault 124T from command line
License
-------
MIT
Why
---
The PowerVault 124T is a nice tape autoloader, but there are some annoying things with it.
In particular, not having the possibility to eject or load tapes other than through the LCD menu or the web administration panel is a pain in the a**.
It's even more annoying when you try to automate your backup management as much as possible (backups are already boring enough).
Simple use cases like detecting tapes that are full in Bacula and automaticaly ejecting them is impossible to automate.
Tapemgr-124t utilities offers a way to expose most of the tape operations from the LCD menu/web administration panel to the command line, including actions not available through the mtx command.
The perl library can also be used.
Dependancies
------------
* WWW::Mechanize
* HTML::TreeBuilder
* Getopt::Long
Command line
------------
Tapemgr-124t comes with 4 utilities:
```bash
# eject a tape (you still have to pick it up from the mail slot,
# this script will not put it on a shelf for you)
$ 124t-eject -H -u -p -s
# load a tape, if -s is specified, it will load the tape in the specified slot,
# otherwise in the first free slot
$ 124t-load -H -u -p [-s ]
# move tape from slot1 to slot2
$ 124t-move -H -u -p -s -d
# status of the slots
$ 124t-status -H -u -p [-n]
```
See **--help** option of each command for more details.
Library
-------
```perl
use TAPEMGR_124T::Actions;
# init the module
my $tape = TAPEMGR_124T::Actions->new(
host => '192.168.0.1',
login => 'admin',
password => 'password',
);
# move a tape from slot 6 to slot 4
$tape->move_tape(6, 4);
# load a tape from mailslot in the first available slot
$tape->load_tape();
# load a tape from mailslot in slot 3
$tape->load_tape_slot(3);
# eject tape from slot 4
$tape->eject_tape(4);
# convert a slot id/number to a slot name
print id2slot(17);
# convert a slot name to slot id/number
print id2slot(mailslot);
# display the slots status
my %status = $tape->slots_status();
foreach(sort {$a <=> $b} keys(%status)){
my $slot_name = TAPEMGR_124T::Actions::id2slot(${_});
my $slot_content = $status{$_};
print "$slot_name: $status{$_}\n";
}
```