Mark Expired Tape as Free

[falkob]

Hello folks !

I have a problem regarding GFS Media Pools.

I have several Tapes which are marked as "expired" but the GFS job doesn't take these Tapes to write backup data to, because they belonged to different media sets.

So iam trying to achieve the following:

Search for "Expired" Tapes via PowerShell and "mark them as free" after finding the expired tapes.

Does anybody have a script for that ?

Thank you !

[veremin]

I don't have console at hand, but the script should look similar to the following:

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$free = Get-VBRTapeMediaPool -Name "Free"
$pool = Get-VBRTapeMediaPool -Name "Name of your media pool"
$tape = Get-VBRTapeMedium -MediaPool $pool | where {$_.isExpired -eq $True}
Move-VBRTapeMedium -Medium $tape -MediaPool $free

Thanks.

[Ostrich]

HI,

here is an exampel, how to use "Move-VBRTapeMedium" to free media pool and back to original mediapool.

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#if (!([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) { Start-Process powershell.exe "-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File `"$PSCommandPath`"" -Verb RunAs; exit }

Start-Transcript -Path $PSScriptRoot\DebugFreeTapes.txt
asnp VeeamPSSnapin
$tapes = Get-VBRTapeMedium | Where-Object {$_.IsExpired -eq 1}


foreach($tape in $tapes)
{
    Write-Output "Move $($tape.name) to free..."
    
    $tmpPoolId = $tape.MediaPoolId
    $tmpPool = Get-VBRTapeMediaPool -Id $tmpPoolId


    Move-VBRTapeMedium -Medium $tape.Name -MediaPool Free 
    Sleep 1
    Write-Output "Move $($tape.name) to $($tmpPool.Name)..."

    Move-VBRTapeMedium -Medium $tape.Name -MediaPool $tmpPool.Name
}