We're a large community college in the Southwest that is looking for tape
inventory software suggestions.
We're mostly a DEC UNIX shop, but we do have BSDi, Sun, as well as
VAX/VMS.
We're trying to find some software that simply 'tracks' tapes. Basically
the operator would enter the information regarding that tape into the
system, and the program would generate purge reports, tape location
information, etc.
Every tape catalog product I've found is designed to work with it's own
backup product; We tried and avoid that. This is just basically a
database of tape information, so that our operations staff still runs the
backups with the standard tools, (UNIX vdump, VAX backup), but we can look
in the database for specific tapes.
If anyone is aware of a commerical product such as this, or even one that
someone wrote and we could modify, would be appreciated.
Thomas
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Thomas Bates - Database/UNIX Administration
bates_at_atlantis.its.dist.maricopa.edu - Maricopa Community Colleges
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