Automatically eject tape

[André Loske]

Hi NG,

is there a way to automatically eject a tape out of a standalone tape
drive? I use a Quantum LTO 4 Tape Drive.

Cheers,
Andrￜ

[Praveen D [MSFT]]

For standalone tape drives its not possible, but for libraries yes it can be
done. Please find more information about it at:

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[Praveen D [MSFT]]

For standalone tape drive its not possible as there are no I/E ports
available. For Tape libraries you can use
Lock-DPMLibraryIEPort/Unlock-DPMLibraryIEPort cmdlets. Please find more
information about it at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb809145.aspx

Thanks,
Praveen D [MSFT]
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"Andrￜ Loske" <an...@sydoriak.de> wrote in message
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[André Loske]

> For standalone tape drive its not possible as there are no I/E
> ports available. For Tape libraries you can use
> Lock-DPMLibraryIEPort/Unlock-DPMLibraryIEPort cmdlets. Please find more
> information about it at:
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb809145.aspx

ok... thx.

Therefore I'd like to make a feature request for this. I've got a lot of
customers which are having non-it-staff only and they are changing
tapes. For making it as easy as possible, this feature would be great
for those.

Cheers,
Andrￜ

[Praveen D [MSFT]]

Can you please give some more information about the user scenario
you are trying to automate where you need tape ejection? Do you script
something like, do a backup on to a tape, once the backup is completed eject
the tape? Most of the standalone drives do have an eject button. Given that
there is only one tape can be placed at a time in the standalone drive. For
any insert/eject operations one has to physically access the drive. Its just
that the Eject button need to be pressed before it comes out.

Thanks,
Praveen D [MSFT]
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"Andrￜ Loske" <an...@sydoriak.de> wrote in message

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[André Loske]

Praveen D [MSFT] schrieb:

> Can you please give some more information about the user scenario
> you are trying to automate where you need tape ejection? Do you script
> something like, do a backup on to a tape, once the backup is completed
> eject the tape? Most of the standalone drives do have an eject button.
> Given that there is only one tape can be placed at a time in the
> standalone drive. For any insert/eject operations one has to physically
> access the drive. Its just that the Eject button need to be pressed
> before it comes out.

HI Praveen,

you are right! One eject button and one power on/off button on every
tape drive. Percentage non-it-staff tries the power on/off before trying
the eject tape button --> 90% ;-)

we are protection one protection group with disk to disk to tape. when
the tape process is finished non-it-staff replaces the tape with a new
one and so on.

Cheers,
Andrￜ

[Praveen D [MSFT]]

Thanks for your valuable feedback on the use case. We will try to address
this in future releases.

Thanks,
Praveen D [MSFT]
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[Mathew Campbell]

I would also like to have this feature as it, is something our customers have become acustomed to with Symantec Backup Exec.... and Yes I do agree with Praveen that you could just press the "Eject Button". However like Andr stated many non-IT users do not notice the eject button on first glance... it is strictly a convenance factor of having it automatically and is a standard feature in similar applications..

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