Get online media

[joergr]

Hi,

with V8 the tape scripting has lightly changed. When using V7 you can read the tapes online at THIS time (i want to know the medium which is IN the tape now) with

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get-vbrtapemedium | Where-Object {$_.IsOnline -like "True"}

With V8 the result returns empty, because the Object "IsOnline" is gone with V8. Any Ideas how to accomplish this task?

Workaround: I need a command to erase everything it finds in the tape drives at the time the command is issued.

Best regards,
Joerg

[joergr]

Come on, there *has* to be a more elegant way like such thing here:

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$drives = get-vbrtapedrive
foreach ($drive_id in $drives)
{
$medium = get-vbrtapemedium -drive $drive_id
Erase-VBRTapeMedium -Medium $medium -confirm:$false   
}

so *please* think with me

Best regards,
Joerg
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[veremin]

What about using media location parameter?

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Get-VBRTapeMedium | where {$_.location -like "Drive"}

Thanks.

[joergr]

What a nice idea!!! Thanks Vladimir - that does it.

[veremin]

You're welcome. By the way, I've moved the topic to the corresponding subforum and renamed it for the convenience of future readers.