Rick Gouin

Tag: Powershell

Use Powershell to Edit MP3 Tags

· Rick Gouin

Here is a bit of a change from the usual datacenter type posts. A nameless friend of mine recently plugged her Ipod into a different PC that was set to auto-sync. It appeared to erase all of her MP3s from her Ipod without prompting or intervention.  I am not familiar with iTunes, iPods, or any Apple products, but a quick search suggested this was a common occurrence.  There are even a few software packages out there to recover the information, as the files don’t actually get deleted.  It seems just some meta data gets removed.  After running one such software […]

Generic Compellent Replay and Mounting Script

· Rick Gouin

I feel like I’ve had to write and re-write this script repeatedly as I’ve needed it for various customers and tasks.  Today I figured I would post it in case anyone else will find it useful. This script is similar to the Push2Tape script that comes as a sample with the Compellent Powershell Command Set.  The difference is that the Push2Tape script doesn’t take a new replay.  It grabs the most recently taken replay.  The idea is that you control when the replay gets taken using the replay scheduling facility on the Compellent.  This is preferable in most cases, because […]