“Who moved my cheese?” is a book by Spencer Johnson, published in 1998. It is written in the style of a fable and is about two mices Sniff and Scurry and the littlepeople Hem and Haw, searching for cheese in lengthy corridors…

And what has that to do with data-protector.org? The book describes in an entertaining way, changes in the life and work. In the near future there will be changes for data-protector.org, “Backup & Recovery, Archiving” – BURA – will be given a higher focus. And, my personal development at work continues.

I recommend to network with me, so that every reader can get my new contact details (starting in May). You will find my profile at Linkedin here: http://de.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-braun/1/349/a21 and my profile at Xing here: http://www.xing.com/profile/Daniel_Braun4.

Source: Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Moved_My_Cheese%3F

Update: new version 1.10 does include a fix for multi-host and multipath configurations. In addition, the languages FRA, CHS and JPN are now supported (DP 8.0, 8.01 and 8.10).

To get a list of free Data Protector devices can be a challenge, especially in larger environments. Of course, with the command omnidbutil -show_locked_devs -all you can list all locked devices (media, etc.). And, with the command omnidownload -list_devices -detail you get a list of all configured devices in Data Protector. However, matching and checking for free devices is a manual task.

Now, with the program omnilistfreedevs, you will get a list of free devices. The software offers different options, i.e it is possible to list SCSI devices only or to skip the listing of devices from filelibraries. With the search parameter you are even more flexible. For further automation you can configure a plain list of free devices.

The script must run on the cell server and is available for Windows and Linux, HP-UX will follow. OMNILISTFREEDEVS combines the output of the commands omnidbutil and omnidownload and has more options.

Options / Help:

• --nofile, -nf – Will ignore devices from type “Filelibrary”.
• --nonul, -nn – Will ignore devices from type “Standalone” and configured as “Nul” devices.
• --noscsi, -ns – Will ignore devices from type “SCSI-II”.
• --nob2d, -nb – Will ignore devices from type “BackupToDisk”.
• --nojuke, -nj – Will ignore devices from type “Jukebox”.
• --onlyscsi, -os – Will display devices from type “SCSI-II” only.
• --search, -s – Will display devices matching the search pattern.
• --noheader, -nh – Header information is surpressed.
• --debug, -d – debug mode, output is written to file: omnilistfreedevsdebug.log.
• --exitcodes, -e – prints out the exit codes used in script.
• --version, -v – displays the script version.
• --help, -h – prints this help.

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I look forward to further suggestions and hope you will enjoy the tool.

BETA testers wanted. Omnispeed has been established as tool to test the performance of backups, copy jobs and restores. Due to limitations of the current version (language and regional settings) and with the introduction of Data Protector 8.0, it was necessary to modify current version. Prior releasing the new version a beta test should verify the functionality.

Requirements: installed cell server (Linux or Windows), german, english or french operating system, and Data Protector versions 8.0, 8.0 international release, 8.01, 8.10.

If you are interested in validating the new version, please write a mail to daniel-braun@data-protector.org. The beta phase will start end of February and will last for 14 days. The binaries (Download-link) and manual will be sent.

Chinese and japanese customers may take part too, in this case additional tests are required.