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An option to automatically erase tapes (quick or long) when they are moved to the scratch pool would be nice. This probably wouldn't make sense on a PTL, but for a VTL, it would improve the accuracy of the VTL's status screen, which shows how much data is on each tape.
or even an option for a
or even an option for a secondary expiration - erase after X days of expiration.
It might be worthwhile to allow erase in background process - if drives are idle for X minutes, load a scratch tape and erase it...
Very good idea. At the
Very good idea.
At the moment you can use bplabel command to erase the tapes. This will free the data from the tapes and the VTL will report the tape as empty.
You can make a script to do the same. Something like this:
for all tapes that are in scratch pool and the VTL
do
bplabel -m $tape
done
it can be run from the cron or manually. It does not have the "x days" parameter, but it gives you what you want.
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