Inventory and erase tape automaticly

[YannickMetz]

Hello,

i am using a script that does an inventory and an erase before every tape job starts.
I had some issues with it and the support said custom scripts are not supported.

Can anyone give me a supported script for my case?

The powershell script looks like this:

Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin
$tape = Get-VBRTapeMedium –library “Tape LTO-6 Week” | where {$_.location.type –eq “drive”}

Start-VBRTapeInventory –library „tape –LTO-6 Week” –wait
Erase-VBRTapeMedium –Medium $tape

Thanks and best regards
Y

[veremin]

What exact issues do you have? Firstly I'd start with changing the line order (line 3 and 2), so tape discovery happens after library inventory. Thanks.

[YannickMetz]

Some times the script only inventories the the tape but does not erase it,
some times it does nothing
or it inventories it but removes it from catalog so that i have to move it in the mediapool again.

support could not help very much.

so the discovery starts in the erase task? It will try to erase the old tape and not the new tape i just put in the drive

Thank you

[veremin]

so the discovery starts in the erase task?

Nope, you should assign tape to variable after inventory, not after. I think this is the root cause of the issues experienced.

Inventory updates information regarding tape device and tapes present in it. So, that's why this step should be first:

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Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin
Start-VBRTapeInventory –library „tape –LTO-6 Week” –wait
$tape = Get-VBRTapeMedium –library “Tape LTO-6 Week” | where {$_.location.type –eq “drive”}
Erase-VBRTapeMedium –Medium $tape

Thanks.

[YannickMetz]

Thank you. Works fine!

[veremin]

You're welcome. Good to know that changing the line order has done the trick for you. Thanks.