Hey All,

One of my colleagues is managing a rather large environment on a daily base.  He has to manage two backup solutions (HP Data Protector and SCDPM) that share one tape library.  From time to time, he need to set a tape not free in that library (Otherwise SCDPM will use that tape while it is needed for the HP solution).  To do his work faster, he created a small powershell script where he has to give the name of the slot in order to mark that tape as not free.

So here it is:

$LIB = Get-DPMLibrary -DPMServerName "<servernaam>"

$TP1 = Get-Tape -DPMLibrary $LIB

$TapeLocationList = Read-Host "Tape location (Slot-x) "

foreach ($media in $TP1)

{

if ($TapeLocationList -contains $media.Location)

{

Set-Tape -Tape $media -NotFree

Echo "Tape in $($media.Location) marked as NOT FREE."

}

else

{

Echo "Tape in location $($media.Location) is not in requested slot."

}

}

Enjoy

Cheers,

Mike

PS: Thanks to Steven Van der Taelen for writing this script

Read the complete post at http://scug.be/blogs/scdpm/archive/2009/12/21/system-center-data-protection-manager-cool-script.aspx